Acting for Young People Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263873827
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Fairfax, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7035544931
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $181,264
- Expenses
- $156,344
- Assets
- $175,522
- 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
- MARY LECHTER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- IAN DICKINSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARY LECHTER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- IAN DICKINSON (PRESIDENT)
- KIMBER CRAINE (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
Acting for young people, inc, (afyp) provides professional-level training in a supportive and fun environment that empowers young actors with lifelong skills valuable both on stage and off. We use the power of theater to encourage collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. Afyp programs impart life skills, raise self-awareness, build confidence, encourage creative thinking, build character and above all, nurture an appreciation for live theater in young audiences.
What it reported doing in 2025
Acting camps and programs for young actors
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.4%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
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: 13.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.4% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $133K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.