Ensemble Arts Philly
Legal name: Kimmel Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232865855
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 215.893.1999
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,176,288
- Expenses
- $75,106,320
- Assets
- $249,935,163
- Liabilities
- $21,526,744
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATIAS TARNOPOLSKY - BOARD (MEMBER/PRES & CEO (THRU 12/24))
- RYAN FLEUR - BOARD (MEMBER/PRES & CEO (AS OF 04/25))
Highest reported compensation
- MATIAS TARNOPOLSKY - BOARD (MEMBER/PRES & CEO (THRU 12/24)): $1,225,614 total reported compensation
- RYAN FLEUR - BOARD (MEMBER/PRES & CEO (AS OF 04/25)): $551,140 total reported compensation
- CRYSTAL BREWE (EXEC VP & COO (AS OF 02/25)): $425,992 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To champion artistic excellence, expand access, and revitalize our iconic venues, creating a vital and inclusive future for the performing arts.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide vital arts education and community programming to serve the interests of a broad and diverse audience.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 75% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 44
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.33; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.4%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 92.1% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $64.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 19 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $17.7M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.