Charity profile · Historical source record

Great Lakes Theater

EIN 34-0901212Arts, Culture, Humanities Ohio Mid-sized

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

The mission

What this organization describes

Bringing the pleasure, power and relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience

Great Lakes Theater (GLT), northeast Ohio's professional classic theater since 1962, is one of the nation's pre-eminent regional theater companies. GLT, which features a resident company of artists, brings the world's greatest plays to life each season from September through May in its revolutionary home at the re-imagined Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare. The company also presents the region's annual production of A Christmas Carol at PlayhouseSquare's Ohio Theatre. The mission of Great Lakes Theater, through its main stage productions and its education programs, is to bring the pleasure, power and relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

88.50Overall score
out of 100

88.04Financial score
out of 100

89.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$4,054,023

Total expenses · USD$4,011,977

Program expenses

$3,390,120.56 recorded amount

84.5%

Fundraising expenses

$236,706.64 recorded amount

5.9%

Administrative expenses

$381,137.82 recorded amount

9.5%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.12 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Robert Taylor
Recorded compensation: $91,002.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 2.26%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Great Lakes Theater
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	89.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	Great Lakes Theater (GLT), northeast Ohio's professional classic theater since 1962, is one of the nation's pre-eminent regional theater companies. GLT, which features a resident company of artists, brings the world's greatest plays to life each season from September through May in its revolutionary home at the re-imagined Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare. The company also presents the region's annual production of A Christmas Carol at PlayhouseSquare's Ohio Theatre. The mission of Great Lakes Theater, through its main stage productions and its education programs, is to bring the pleasure, power and relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience.
`ein` EIN	34-0901212
`tot_exp` Total expenses	4011977.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.095
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.12
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.059000000000000004
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.845
`fscore` Financial score	88.04
`leader` Recorded leader	Robert Taylor
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	91002.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0226
`motto` Tagline	Bringing the pleasure, power and relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience
`name` Charity name	Great Lakes Theater
`tot_rev` Total revenue	4054023.0
`score` Overall score	88.5
`state` State code	OH
`subcategory` Subcategory	Performing Arts
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	3390120.565
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	236706.643
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	381137.815

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.