Redhouse Arts Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222366669
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3153622785
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,057,223
- Expenses
- $2,965,708
- Assets
- $10,971,697
- Liabilities
- $7,507,795
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRANKLIN G FRY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- FRANKLIN G FRY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $140,803 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Redhouse arts center, inc. Is a not-for-profit cultural center. Our mission is to transform lives through intimate and distinct experiences in the arts. Redhouse presents and produces new works in theatre, film, visual art, and music.
What it reported doing in 2024
Redhouse theatre and the theater experience - this program features a combination of professional theater performances as well as our theater experience program, which partners community and at risk youth performers with professional performers. The professional performers act as mentors to the students and community members teaching acting and performance skills.redhouse education program - this program features courses in the music, dance, theater, and visual arts to a wide range of students from pre-k to retired professionals. The education program includes classes with two weekend workshops and saturday classes for youth in drawing, acting and singing.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some related-organization disclosures are missing and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $40.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 3%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.7; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.4% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 25 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 30 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.