A Call to Conscience

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
463360461
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Saint Louis, MO, USA
Phone
3146078919
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Theater

Reported finances

Revenue
$73,182
Expenses
$80,074
Assets
$65,739
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jessiree Jenkins (President)

People named in this filing

  • Fannie Lebby (Secretary)
  • Jessiree Jenkins (President)
  • Melva Paden (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

To encourage civil engagement and education as it relates to African Americans through theater and other forms of performing arts.

What it reported doing in 2025

Live at Club Riviera centers on the prominence of African-American club owner and civil rights activist Jordan W. Chambers, from 1944 through 1964. Known as the "black Mayor of St. Louis", Chambers' savvy leadership marshalled hundreds of professional careers for black citizens in many fields as well as spotlighting Black up-and-coming local talent and national and international entertainers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.9%; rating input score 91
  • Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 42; 42nd 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: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 133.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.9% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $66K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.