The Sacred Fools Theater
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954619221
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8186751072
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $535,622
- Expenses
- $574,854
- Assets
- $197,387
- Liabilities
- $138,721
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bruno Oliver (Board Member president Facilities Manager)
Highest reported compensation
- Bruno Oliver (Board Member president Facilities Manager): $30,000 total reported compensation
- Michael Leggett (Producing Director): $30,000 total reported compensation
- Padraic Duffy (Managing Director): $30,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Sacred Fools Theater Company is an organization committed to creating sustaining and nurturing live theatre in Los Angeles.We are continually searching for new and inspiring artists to partner with and foster. We also strive to create opportunities for both established peers and emerging artists especially from historically under-represented backgrounds. We seek to be a theatrical hub providing and sharing our resources to create a community of communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sacred Fools education programs include in-school and after-school classes and workshops professional development for teachers and a popular summer theater camp.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.5%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 23.8%; rating input score 24
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.7; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.5% of revenue deployed · 23.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $137K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 26/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.