Motion Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510137210
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Rafael, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4157102749
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $109,519
- Expenses
- $90,732
- Assets
- $32,957
- Liabilities
- $1,186
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- YAZ SHEHAB (President)
People named in this filing
- NINA WISE (Secretary)
- YAZ SHEHAB (President)
- ROB PAVEY (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Grounded in the understanding that art heals, motion creates and produces original experimental theater and offers workshops in self expression to professionals, amateurs, and special populations.
What it reported doing in 2024
To create and produce workshops in improvisation, theater, and self expressions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.2%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 49.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.6% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.