Ovation Performing Arts Theatre

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831886944
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Sisters, OR, USA
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Theater

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$170,585
Expenses
$149,061
Assets
$13,369

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jonathan Shepherd (Executive Director and President)

People named in this filing

  • Jonathan Shepherd (Executive Director and President)
  • Andrea Garner (Treasurer and Show Coordinator)
  • Cece Belli (Director and Show Director)

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

From our bylaws: article 2 - purpose The Corporation Organization is established ... for the enrichment and empowerment of youth through theatrical productions classes and training in singing dance acting and other facets of theatre such as costuming prop or set design or lighting and the appreciation of art and reinforcement of cultural values in our youth actors and the audiences for whom they perform.

What it reported doing in 2025

Last year we increased our output substantially. We performed four full-length Broadway productions: Rodgers and Hammersteins Cinderella Youre A Good Man Charlie Brown Disneys Newsies and Disneys The Little Mermaid. We split our growing cast into two halves younger and older and thereby decreased our combined cast size of 70 in Cinderella to casts of 30 - 50 again. To facilitate all of these changes we also leased our own performance space in January. This incurs a much greater monthly expense for ourselves but at four shows a year up from two we can manage these costs. We offered summer classes like aways and continued to grow into the fall and winter. Still no grants but a lot of goodwill from parents and volunteers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.4%; rating input score 87
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.6%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 129.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 109.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 45.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $149K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.