New York Neo-futurists
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203613986
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3478716365
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $251,362
- Expenses
- $233,713
- Assets
- $11,836
- Liabilities
- $14,793
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CONNOR SAMPSON (PRESIDENT)
- SARAH BRAVER (VICE PRESIDENT/TRESURER (LEFT DEC 2024))
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT NEILL (CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR): $42,821 total reported compensation
- KYRA SIMS (CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR): $23,942 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL IMPROTA (ENSEMBLE MEMBER): $4,174 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The New York Neo-Futurists are a dynamic ensemble of multidiciplinary artists who write and perform original work rooted in the truth of our own lived experiences. We fuse elements of poetry, game, and performance art to create ever-changing theatre and other artistic experiments to respond to the world around us. ~ We believe in creating art under four tenets: we are who we are, we are where we are, we are doing what we are doing, and the time is now. ~ We believe in empowering the artist to share their own stories honestly on stage. ~ We believe in embracing failure, experimentation, and change giving ourselves an infinite number of next chances. ~ We believe that limitations and gamified structure set our creativity free. ~ We believe in giving artists the opportunity to develop their voice through rigorous participation in our collective process of creation and re-creation. ~ We believe in generating a high volume of work, living with this work for a short time, then moving onto wh
What it reported doing in 2024
Theatrical plays and performances primarily held in New York City including other performance events on tours conducted throughout the USA.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.25; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 72.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $169K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $43K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.