The Strindberg Laboratory
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462702236
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7143105073
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,199
- Expenses
- $58,075
- Assets
- $4,343
- Liabilities
- $181
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL BIERMAN (Executive Dir.)
- MERI PAKARINEN (ARTISTIC DIR)
- MARY BETH BARBER (PROJECTS COORDI)
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
The strindberg laboratory is a professional theatre company that creates community-based theater with persons from diverse background.original theatrical productions consist of people from around the world and from all walks of life and help to build bridges between communities that are normally separated.the company believes that divery is the key ingredient to creating truly unique and transformational theate at the higest level.it also provides theatre workshops for local community organizations that enage a wide variety of persons from different communities such as incarcerated, formerly incarcerated , college students , people with mental and health related issues, autistic persons and many more diverse populations. All of our worjshoips and partnerships culminate in origianal theatical productions.
What it reported doing in 2025
The strindberg laboratory is a professional theatre company that creates community-based theater with persons from diverse backgrounds.original theatrical productions consist of people from around the world and from all walks of life and help to build bridges between communities that are normally separated.the company believes that diversity is the key ingredient to creating truly unique and transformational theatre at the higest level.it also provides theatre workshops for local community organizations that enage a wide variety of persons from different communities such as incarcerated, formerly incarcerated , college students , people with mental and health related issues, autistic persons and many more diverse populations. All of our workshoips and partnerships culminate in origianal theatical productions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. 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: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.8%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 25.9%; rating input score 26
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.8% of revenue deployed · 25.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 29/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.