Indigo Theater
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923987210
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Columbiana, OH, USA
- Phone
- 7249402388
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $31,834
- Expenses
- $34,038
- Assets
- $341
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Daniel Hudock (President)
- Athena Tausch (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Daniel Hudock (President)
- Athena Tausch (Vice-President)
- Lisa Kauffman (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Indigo Theater was formed exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, including for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) or the IRS Code, or corresponding section of any further federal tax code. Indigo Theater will promotes advancement of art, whether visual arts or the performing arts such as music, dance, and theater.
What it reported doing in 2025
"Murder on the Orient Express" play. Four performances with 165 people in attendance. Cast size of 10 plus their families. Families and community members built the set, marketed the play, and performed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.9%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 43%; rating input score 43
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.9%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 73.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -60.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.9% of revenue deployed · 43% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.