Valley Performing Arts Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770458747
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fresno, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5592847029
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Council/Agency
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24,252
- Expenses
- $133,199
- Assets
- $77,705
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Mimi Fanucchi (Secretary)
- Marina Fliagina (Director)
- Lucia Mireles-Chavez (Director)
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
Valley performing arts council vpac was established in march of 1997 as a non-profit educational organization providing local grade school students with exposure to the classical performing arts. Vpac believes in educating children in classical arts - arts that have survived the test of time which provides lasting value to society. Vpac's primary mission is to expose children to the beauty, wisdom, and truth that classical arts impart to us. In this modern world of technology, it seems as though the focus of education has shifted further from a curriculum concerned with building character. The arts have long survived as a way to better the understanding, expression, and future of our race. Learning, studying and mastering different forms of classical arts helps teach our children the value of compassion, integrity, personal strength, and respect for ourselves and others. Great classical art focuses not only on the technical mastery of painting, dancing or playing an instrument, but als
What it reported doing in 2025
Fresno ballet theater: in 1997, yukari thiesen founded the fresno ballet theater fbt, formerly named fresno dance theatre. This student ballet company is open to all ballet students and non-ballet students provided there are roles in the central valley. Growing up at the matsuyama ballet school, affiliated with matsuyama ballet, then the largest professional ballet company in tokyo. It provides the students a clear understanding of the goal to be achieved by observing and working with the professionals. Cumulatively, this organization has reached 132,000 school students from 25 school districts throughout this California central valley. Fbt provides opportunities to ballet students to work with the state street ballet of santa barbara and its artistic staff magen philipp and cecily macdougall on a spring ballet production. The fresno ballet theatre and the state street ballet of santa barbara collaborated to draw on dance and artistic forces within the san joaquin valley community for a united presentation, building a stronger foundation for ballet and dance while reaching out to approximately 10,000 grade school students annually.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -449.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.4% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $133K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.