Seattle Theatre Group: $75.6M Revenue, $73.0M Expenses

The efficiency rubric puts Seattle Theatre Group at a B grade: a composite of 72/100 that lands above the national midpoint. The grade reflects solid financial reserves alongside reasonable officer compensation and steady revenue.

Seattle Theatre Group reported $75.6M in 2023 revenue — a mid-sized nonprofit by U.S. standards. Organizations in this bracket typically operate with a small permanent staff, project-based program structures, and modest reserves. On the reserves factor, Seattle Theatre Group scores well — assets relative to annual spending sit in the range nonprofit-finance experts consider healthy (roughly three months to two years of operating expenses).

Five-year revenue is essentially flat — Seattle Theatre Group's funding base appears stable but not growing. For mature organizations this is often the steady state; for younger ones it can signal a funding plateau worth diagnosing. Officer compensation is on the higher side of the band typical for nonprofits this size: $3.4M in total current-officer compensation against $75.6M in revenue. Not necessarily inappropriate — large healthcare systems and university systems often pay competitively with for-profit equivalents — but worth reading in context. Seattle Theatre Group sits in the cultural-nonprofit sector (Arts, Culture & Humanities). Museum, performing-arts, and cultural organizations carry distinctive financial patterns — earned revenue from ticket sales and admissions, plus a heavy reliance on endowment income and major donor cycles.