Act One
Legal name: Act One Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954854284
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3234640815
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,851
- Expenses
- $95,097
- Assets
- $3,202
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- JAMES DUKE (Executive Dir.)
- CHUCK SLOCUM (Chairman)
- CHRISTINA LEE STORM (Director)
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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As an educational and professional collective, Act One trains, supports, and provides opportunities for creative development to both emerging and established writers and producers. MISSION Act One is a Christian community of entertainment industry professionals who train and equip storytellers to create works of truth, goodness and beauty. VISION As an educational and professional collective, Act One trains, supports, and provides opportunities for creative development to both emerging and established writers and producers. MISSION.
What it reported doing in 2020
Act One, Inc., exists to create a community of Christian professionals for the entertainment industry who are committed to artistry, professionalism, meaning, and prayer, so that through their lives and work they may be witnesses of Christ and the Truth to their fellow artists and to the global culture. Our graduates are prepared for careers marked by integrity and excellence, in writers rooms, on sets, and in studio and network offices.
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
- 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.6%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 66.4%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.8%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -32.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -35% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 58.6% of revenue deployed · 66.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2016 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.