Sugar Creek Opera Ltd

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
431992518
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Watseka, IL, USA
Phone
8154324320
Rating
43
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,280
Expenses
$20,843
Assets
$4,262
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dennis Hopkins (President)

People named in this filing

  • Helen Todd (General Manager)
  • Dennis Hopkins (President)
  • Kay Johnson (Secretary)

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

To take world class opera out pf the city and into the country. To encourage economic revival making rural Illinois more attractive to business investment. To provide education and cultural opportunities. To provide educational and cultural opportunies to youth and adults. To introduce students to careers in the arts.

What it reported doing in 2024

Since Covid, we have had trouble restarting our organization. Rather than a full opera, we had a concert of love songs with professional singers and accompanied by a 12 piece orchestra. This concert did not happen to fall in this fiscal year's timeperiod

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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: -28%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 50% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -12.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -43.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.