4 Chairs Theatre

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
830798424
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Buffalo Grove, IL, USA
Phone
8475337488
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Theater

Reported finances

Revenue
$27,295
Expenses
$22,633
Assets
$89,246
Liabilities
$49,019

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAUREN D BERMAN (President)

People named in this filing

  • LAUREN D BERMAN (President)
  • NOAH RAWITZ (Director)
  • LISA WEISNER (Secretary)

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

We are committed to providing a safe and positive space for people of all ages, cultures, genders, ethnicities, abilities and walks of life. Our performances, original works, and educational programs breathe humanity, empathy and truth. We amplify voices that are often excluded and uncover hearts that are often hidden.

What it reported doing in 2025

4 chairs theatre performs and produces musicals and other performances including cabaret that promotes cultural diversity.

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
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.1%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.94; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.