Performing Arts for Life and Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954470266
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,000
- Expenses
- $199,000
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charles Douglass (CEO Artistic Director)
People named in this filing
- Charles Douglass (CEO Artistic Director)
- Dante Mitchell (Assistant)
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
To provide educational access and exposure to all aspects of the performing arts disciplines from backstage to onstage in an effort to educate and inform professional skills in the multifaceted arts and arts education industries,
What it reported doing in 2025
Trained and engaged over 25 technical staff members for our season
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.7%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 13
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st 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: -47.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.7% of revenue deployed · 12.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.