Accolade Theatre
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872112046
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Richardson, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9405958981
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,862
- Expenses
- $118,440
- Assets
- $107,766
- Liabilities
- $5,894
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Desirea Brown (President and Secretary)
People named in this filing
- Rachel Cross (Chairman of the Boad)
- Desirea Brown (President and Secretary)
- John Cross (Board Member)
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
Accolade is organized for the principal purpose of providing arts and educational experiences through the theatre arts for children and teens of all ethnic groups and cultures.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Accolade produced seven theatrical productions: four musicals (Winnie the Pooh Kids, Aladdin, Jr., Oklahoma, and Cinderella), two plays (Our Town, and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe), and our family show (Spaghetti Western). We also brought theatre into the community by performing select scenes from Winnie the Pooh Kids at Children's Medical Center Dallas, where the performances were broadcast into patient rooms through the Seacrest Studio, and we performed a Nativity scene at the Northwest Community Center during their Vickery Christmas Market event. To celebrate and recognize our young performers, we hosted our annual awards ceremony for the 2024-2025 season, and we launched our second series of educational workshops.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 73% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 98.9%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.2%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81% of revenue deployed · 98.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $117K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.