Mondo Bizarro Productions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841891312
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Phone
- 2255712929
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $459,002
- Expenses
- $444,779
- Assets
- $639,946
- Liabilities
- $3,373
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bruce France (Executive Director)
- Carlton Turner (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Bruce France (Executive Director): $13,546 total reported compensation
- Dan Pruksarnukul (Creative Producer): $13,546 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mondo Bizarro Productions has been creating interdisciplinary art and fostering creative partnerships in local, national and international communities for twenty years. Our creative endeavors range from ensemble performances to large-scale community festivals, from innovative digital storytelling projects to site-responsive productions. As artists of place, our journeys begin and end in New Orleans: we tour to embolden our efforts here. Our creations embody the urgency of our desire to listen to our land and culture, develop allies in collective action, and provide a platform for using art as a tool to understand what makes us commonly human and individually unique. Since 2002, our wide array of imaginative projects have toured to art centers, universities and outdoor locations in 38 states across the country and abroad. We also serve as the fiscal sponsor for Another Gulf is Possible Collaborative, Climate Culture, The Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange and Trinity City Arts.
What it reported doing in 2024
In FY 25, Mondo Bizarro produced Invisible Rivers. Invisible Rivers has hosted numerous site-responsive performances and land activations serving over 1500 people. We also produced Decompositions and Flying Dreams. Additionally, we hosted several trainings and community events at our space, Catapult. We continued to release episodes of our podcast, Hatched, and began editing on a new podcast called Katrina Stories. We serve as the fiscal sponsor for Another Gulf is Possible Collaborative, Climate Culture, The Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange and Trinity City Arts
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.1%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $384K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $14K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.