Son of Semele Ensemble Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020560895
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2133513507
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,284
- Expenses
- $49,118
- Assets
- $145,660
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Matthew McCray (Artstic Director)
- Michael Nehring (Full Professor of Theatre)
- Matthew Larsen (Marketing Executive)
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
A theatre company presenting and producing enriching and invigorating theatre in the Los Angeles area.
What it reported doing in 2025
We are maintaining administrative systems and operations in preparation for more programming in the coming year. These include maintaining our equipment, accounts, and relationships with key administrative and artistic personnel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 96.1%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.2%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.97; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 60.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.4% of revenue deployed · 96.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.