Port Angeles Waterfront Center Dba Field Arts & Events Hall
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813062077
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Port Angeles, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3604774679
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,715,668
- Expenses
- $4,826,956
- Assets
- $60,856,411
- Liabilities
- $4,665,311
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BROOKE TAYLOR (PRESIDENT)
- JUDITH MORRIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- STEVEN GINSBURG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- STEVEN GINSBURG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $186,111 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The port angeles waterfront center is a home for arts and events that brings people together and strengthens our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Design, construct, and operate a performing arts and conference center in port angeles, Washington.construction was completed july 2023 and the facility, dba field arts & events hall is a nonprofit performing arts and conference center located on the port angeles waterfront, serving as a vibrant cultural and economic catalyst for the north olympic peninsula. Field arts & events hall has hosted more than 250 events annually and welcomed over 80,000 visitors from across Washington state, the pacific northwest and beyond. The 41,000 square foot facility features a 500 seat state-of-the-art theater, a flexible conference, an art gallery and the waterfront coffee bar.in addition to presenting world-class artists from across the globe, field hall leads peninsula performs!, an art education initiative that connects local students with professional artists through masterclasses, workshops, and behind-the-scenes experiences enriching arts education throughout clallam county. As a cornerstone of the region's cultural tourism infrastructure, field hall drives economic growth by attracting conferences, performances and cultural events that support local businesses positioning port angeles as a premier destination for arts and culture on Washington's olympic peninsula.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.5%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.61; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.7% of revenue deployed · 75.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $186K · 17 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.