Soho Think Tank Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

With the closing of the Christopher Street space Aug.31, 2023 we are no longer d.b.a as New Ohio Theatre, and are now operating as Soho Think Tank (our actual 501.c.3 incorporated name).In September we produced the Downtown Upstate festival, bringing the best of NYC downtown theatre artists to the Hudson Valley, featuring three different shows at two different venues over three consecutive weekends. Downtown Upstate also included a solo performance workshop for local residents. Presented by Ancram Center for the Arts & Stissing Center (Pine Plains). Produced with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts. The festival included: Blessed Unrests LA MUSICA DEUXIEME by Marguerite Duras, PUZZLING EVIDENCE, written & directed by Robert Lyons, and PLAYS by Gertrude Stein, performed by David Greenspan. Lenora Champagne taught the solo-performance workshop. The festival was widely covered by local press and included a live interview with Lyons on WKZE, the beloved local radio station.In May we presented CLASS DISMISED, written by Artistic Director Robert Lyons, at La Mama in NYCs East Village for three weeks: April 18 - May 4. We had excellent audiences and many sold-out performances. The New York Times called it Effusively unhinged! The New York Observer called it: a head-spinning collision of political philosophy and clowning. We had also had many on-line raves as well. La Mama offered us an open-ended invitation to return in the future. We'll be bringing PUZZLING EVIDENCE there in spring 2027.In June our show MY ONLINESS, also written by Artistic Director Lyons, was presented at the prestigious Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania. Our entire ensemble (of fifteen) was flown to and housed in Sibiu. We performed on June 20 & 21 to sold-out houses. The work was translated into Romanian and projected on supertitles for the performance. Audiences loved the show and we received two rave reviews from European publications: one from Aplauze and one from Hermannstadter Zeitung. We are hoping to take CLASS DISMISSED there in 2027! In December Robert was interviewed as part of TORCHES, a limited-series podcast produced by Kristin Marting with support from the Mellon Foundation, featuring significant downtown theatre artists of the last thirty years. That program is currently rolling out on HOWLROUND, a digital hub for global theatre conversations.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 93

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -229.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 39.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings