1St Street Players
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473884208
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Birdsboro, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6104003170
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,066
- Expenses
- $76,044
- Assets
- $38,700
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVE DANIELS (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT TILLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STEVE DANIELS (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT TILLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JERRY RAWSON (TREASURER)
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
1st street players uplifts the community through imaginative theatrical productions and transformative educational programming. We strive to foster a safe space for artists and audiences to connect, collaborate, and create.
What it reported doing in 2025
The 1st street players of birdsboro, pa operate primarily as a not-for-profit community theater. The company produces an average of five to seven shows per year, with an emphasis on community involvement and theater education for all. These shows include, but are not limited to: musicals, plays, youth theater, staged readings, works by local authors, cabaret events, and concerts. Since the company's founding in 2015, it is estimated that over 15,000 persons have benefitted from the services of the theater, including actors, patrons, community members, and volunteers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.8%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 68.8%; rating input score 69
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.8% of revenue deployed · 68.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.