South Dakota Shakespeare Festival
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813483962
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Vermillion, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6053519826
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,276
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $70,607
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dennis Nelsen (President)
- Scott Mannschreak (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Dennis Nelsen (President)
- Connie Nelsen (Secretary)
- Rich Holland (Treasurer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The South Dakota Shakespeare Festival is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. The purpose of the Corporation is to increase the cultural, artistic, and educational offerings of the state of South Dakota and surrounding regions through professional Shakespeare performances and arts education events delivered in a lively and accessible format at no cost to the public.
What it reported doing in 2024
The South Dakota Shakespeare Festival has presented cultural, artistic, and educational offerings to the state of South Dakota and surrounding regions at no charge to audiences. Through free professional Shakespeare performances and arts education events, SDSF delivers productions and workshops that are presented in a lively and accessible format for all ages. This year, we engaged approximately 700 patrons with the magic of Shakespeare in Vermillion's Prentis Park. Our Education and Outreach programming impacted an additional 200 youth and adults. The scope of our work includes talk-backs about the productions and partnerships with Vermillion's Public Library, Sanford Senior Care Center, Upward Bound, and the Minnehaha Youth Detention Center. Each year, we also grow to include multiple local businesses in the festival activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 68.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.