Minerva West

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
882140426
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Ridgway, CO, USA
Phone
5204659027
Rating
58
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Performing Arts Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$72,965
Expenses
$79,331
Assets
$10,440
Liabilities
$2,682

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tim Price (President)

People named in this filing

  • Tim Price (President)
  • Rick Isenberg (Treasurer)
  • Ruth Higdon (Board Member)

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

Minerva west s mission is to provide equitable opportunities for expression, creativity and arts education to all in the community via regularly scheduled performances, youth camps, after school programs, and training in performance arts production. Minerva west aims to inspire creativity and community by offering equitable opportunities for all regardless of age, ability, race or sexual orientation. Since its founding in 2022, minerva has produced 32 shows with 107 performances involving more that 185 actors, crew and volunteers. It has established after-school youth programs at both ridgway elementary and ridgway secondary schools.

What it reported doing in 2025

Minerva West Youth Theatre Workshop and Performance Program - Primary level: This program provides theater arts education for kids 5-14 and is comprised of an afterschool workshop program and a summer youth theater program. The 2025 Afterschool workshops presented 2 productions (You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, and Peter Pan). The 2025 Youth Summer Theatre workshop lead to a public performance of Frozen. Workshops are tuition supported. 47 kids aged 5-13 participated.. Performance attendance totaled 417.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

MIXED - 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: 25
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 26.1%; rating input score 26
  • Program expense ratio: 24%; rating input score 24

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: -8.7%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 56.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 28.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 26.1% of revenue deployed · 24% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.