Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043703131
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Midland, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7245764644
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,195,630
- Expenses
- $14,007,272
- Assets
- $39,052,147
- Liabilities
- $19,327,835
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER SHOVLIN (CEO)
- RICHARD CORRADI (PRESIDENT)
- LINWOOD ALFORD (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER SHOVLIN (CEO): $157,198 total reported compensation
- CRAIG M LEE (CCO): $148,697 total reported compensation
- THERESA DILL (CFO): $145,087 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 strengthen the cultural, educational, and economic vitality of the communities we serve by making high-quality arts and education programs available, accessible, and affordable for everyone.
What it reported doing in 2024
Lincoln park pursues and achieves excellence by embodying the integration of arts education and performance, creating an environment where people from diverse backgrounds come to realize their potential through the transforming influence of the arts. The organziation creates the lincoln park experience by producing world-class offerings and forging partnerships with local, regional, national, and international organizations and individuals, and becoming wideley recognized by our unique array of exceptional programs and activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.79; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.1% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $157K · 11 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.