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Alabama Shakespeare Festival

EIN 63-0652734Arts, Culture, Humanities Alabama Mid-sized

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Providing classical and contemporary artistic works

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF), located in Montgomery - Alabama's state capital - is the sixth largest Shakespeare festival in the world and attracts more than 300,000 annual visitors from all 50 states and over 60 countries. ASF operates year-round, producing 14 world-class productions annually, including three works of William Shakespeare. The remainder are classics of the stage - works by playwrights such as Moliére, George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and Eugene O'Neill - along with musicals and new works commissioned by the Festival. Children's Theatre and SchoolFest, ASF's student matinee programs, entertain and educate more than 36,000 schoolchildren each season from throughout the region.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

80.70Overall score
out of 100

80.42Financial score
out of 100

81.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$8,012,278

Total expenses · USD$8,281,994

Program expenses

$6,501,365.29 recorded amount

78.5%

Fundraising expenses

$480,355.65 recorded amount

5.8%

Administrative expenses

$1,291,991.06 recorded amount

15.6%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.09 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Geoffrey Sherman
Recorded compensation: $186,900.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 2.25%

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All 23 original fields for Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	81.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	The Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF), located in Montgomery - Alabama's state capital - is the sixth largest Shakespeare festival in the world and attracts more than 300,000 annual visitors from all 50 states and over 60 countries. ASF operates year-round, producing 14 world-class productions annually, including three works of William Shakespeare. The remainder are classics of the stage - works by playwrights such as Moliére, George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and Eugene O'Neill - along with musicals and new works commissioned by the Festival. Children's Theatre and SchoolFest, ASF's student matinee programs, entertain and educate more than 36,000 schoolchildren each season from throughout the region.
`ein` EIN	63-0652734
`tot_exp` Total expenses	8281994.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.156
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.09
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.057999999999999996
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.785
`fscore` Financial score	80.42
`leader` Recorded leader	Geoffrey Sherman
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	186900.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0225
`motto` Tagline	Providing classical and contemporary artistic works
`name` Charity name	Alabama Shakespeare Festival
`tot_rev` Total revenue	8012278.0
`score` Overall score	80.7
`state` State code	AL
`subcategory` Subcategory	Performing Arts
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	6501365.29
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	480355.65199999994
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	1291991.064

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 63-0652734
Source category: Arts, Culture, Humanities
Source subcategory: Performing Arts
Recorded location: Alabama (AL)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.