Orpheus Theatre Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161259528
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Oneonta, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6074321800
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $177,374
- Expenses
- $158,792
- Assets
- $197,287
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRED PLOUTZ (President)
- KEVIN KURKOWSKI (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- FRED PLOUTZ (President)
- JILL LEHMANN (Treasurer)
- KEVIN KURKOWSKI (Vice 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 organizations primary mission is dedicated to the presentation to the public a wide variety of theatrical events including musical theater, dance and drama, providing the opportunity for performances and training of local and outside professionals in theatrical production, promoting the public appreciation of the theatrical arts through live performance, and contributiong to the general cultural and economic life of the immediate community and surrounding region.
What it reported doing in 2025
Drama and musical productions using local and professional talent
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.4%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.4% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $137K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.