Northern Light Opera Company Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450464803
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Park Rapids, MN, USA
- Phone
- 2182527096
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $140,675
- Expenses
- $117,297
- Assets
- $95,218
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brian Ahart (President)
- Lorri Jager (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Paul Dove (Artistic Director Foounder)
- Patricia Dove (Board Member Founder)
- Brian Ahart (President)
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
The primary exempt purpose of Northern Light Opera Company NLOC is to provide arts and educational opportunities to the community The primary program is a presentation of an annual music theater presentation led by professional stage director scenic and technical director choreographer music director pit orchestra of professional musicians and lighting and sound designers Volunteers from the community spend hundreds of hours as set and costume builders Sixty Actorsingersmusicians have an opportunity to perform for an audience of over 2000 patronsNLOC also presents educational workshops NLOKids Drama Camp 3-weeks WorkBench New Play workshop 1-week Workbench Filmmaking workshop 1-week and sponsored production of a public performance of A very good Christmas Carol developed in conjunction with NLOC
What it reported doing in 2025
0
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 24 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.