Power House Productions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271435687
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3135766941
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,542
- Expenses
- $103,310
- Assets
- $323,958
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MORGAN CHIDO JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- INGRID LAFLEUR (PRESIDENT)
- CASEY ROCHETEAU (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MITCHELL COPE (CO-DIRECTOR)
- MORGAN CHIDO JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- INGRID LAFLEUR (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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Power house productions (php) is an artist-run neighborhood-based nonprofit organization. Propgrams cross cultures and genres, engaging fellow residents on multiple levels including research, feedback, audience, and through project participation. Projects are driven by artists who live and work in neighborhood, while open to an exchange of work from the art world at-large. Strategic partnerships with other groups sharing our goals allow the organization to remain small while having greater impact. Through a network of project houses, art installations, and dynamic programs, php integrates arts and culture into the daily life of our diverse detroit neighborhood, creating public spaces for exchanging ideas, opinions and experiences.
What it reported doing in 2018
Cultural exchanges locally, nationally, and internationally including neighborhood tours, public speaking engagements and workshops across the country, and international travel opportunities for artistic partners including the zimbabwe cultural center of detroit (zccd), art culture & the commons working group, and detroit-paris-detroit. Also including peer-to-peer learning and field building with creative many Michigan, common field, united artists of detroit (uad), and creative commons.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.14; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -41.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.