Network of Ensemble Theaters Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721583726
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 3122370878
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $454,140
- Expenses
- $210,925
- Assets
- $238,116
- Liabilities
- $11,428
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LESLIE TAMARIBUCHI (President)
Highest reported compensation
- ALICIA TONSIC (Past Exec Dir): $58,702 total reported compensation
- ALEXANDRA MEDA (Lead Director): $17,753 total reported compensation
- SEVERIN BLAKE (Director): $14,581 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Net links a diverse array of ensembles and practitioners to one another and the performing arts field, encouraging collaborations and knowledge building and dissemination. Net is committed to the advancement of the ensemble form and strives to bring about change in the world beyond ourselves through the transformative power of collaborative theater. We support bold artistic and civic experiments and aim to heighten the impact and excellence of ensemble theater.
What it reported doing in 2024
Field building programsnets membership program builds and nurtures the ensemble arts field through services and support to members, and by establishing and maintaining a visible and accessible national roster of ensemble-focused peers for networking and field learning. Membership is available on an annual basis to ensemble organizations, artists, and related practitioners through the following categories: ensembles, affiliate organizations, individuals, and students.through our advocacy & cultural policy efforts, net organizes and promotes ensemble practice and ensemble theater-making as a distinct element of the united states theater, amplifying its collective voice for local and national impact. Net serves as the voice of ensemble theaters and co-creators in cultural policy discussions, and at convenings of artists, practitioners, educators, funders, service organizations, and agencies nationally.additionally, in fy2025 net began developing the federation initiative, a multi-year effort to build cooperative economic infrastructure for cultural workers. The initiative emerged directly from the netnext community strategic planning process led by the bridge ensemble, and from needs identified by the national community through circle ups and in-person gatherings from 2022-2024. Members of the shared leadership and producing directors team completed the cooperative management for a changing world program at cuny school of labor and urban studies, where net served as a case study for cooperative transformation. Research included study with the us federation of worker cooperatives, freelancers union, and the mondragon cooperative in spain. Net published "learning from the labor movement: a new vision for ensemble and cooperative practice and began fieldwork conversations with labor unions, cooperative developers, and benefits infrastructure organizations to explore pathways to health insurance, shared services, and portable benefits for cultural workers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most filed governance safeguards are in place. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 60
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.8%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $121.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
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: 50%; rating input score 50; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 53.6%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.8% of revenue deployed · 83.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $176K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.