Paradise Theatre
Legal name: Paradise Community Theatre Assn Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411837282
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Mora, MN, United States
- Phone
- 320-679-3964
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $109,792
- Expenses
- $139,779
- Assets
- $338,615
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD FUCHS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CINDY LARSON (TREASURER)
- JAKE SKELLY (SECRETARY)
- RICHARD FUCHS (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 Paradise Theatre is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Movie Theater and Performing Arts Venue. Our goal is simple: to provide Kanabec County and its surrounding areas with low-cost, first-run movies and high quality live arts entertainment. We continually seek to expand our range of artistic offerings, as well as the range of services to our community. We have had two annual Film Festivals, and are organizing the third annual Film Festival for April of 2015. As always, we humbly welcome and appreciate your continued financial support (donations are tax deductible!) And we hope you join us on our ride. Enjoy the show! Proudly powered by WordPress. We now provide high quality, affordable entertainment for thousands of people of all ages and income levels. We serve not only the city of Mora, but the entire region of Pine, Kanabec, Isanti and Mille Lacs counties. In addition to first-run...
What it reported doing in 2025
Organization encourages local involvement in the arts by providing economical viewing of current movies. Approximately 75 movies, live entertainment & plays are provided annually and available to the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 79% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: -27.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.42; rating input score 84; 84th 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: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $140K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.