Anthony Bean Community Theater and Acting School

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
721492305
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
New Orleans, LA, USA
Phone
5049755541
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$77,023
Expenses
$79,708
Assets
$2,923
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Anthony Bean (CEO Artistic Director)
  • Dail Glapion (President)

People named in this filing

  • Anthony Bean (CEO Artistic Director)
  • Elise Felix (Director of Operations)
  • Dail Glapion (President)

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

Anthony Bean Theater is a prominent theater production company and a year-round acting school that offers open enrollment for inner city hildren. Its mission is to inspire those it serves through the magic of the arts while maintaining a strong commitment to diversity.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Anthony Bean Community Theater (ABCT) has had a profound impact on the community through its various initiatives and programs. Here are some key aspects of ABCT's community impact: Youth Engagement: ABCT has successfully launched the ABCT Teen Talk TV program, which has aired multiple episodes on My54-WUPL TV. This program empowers teenagers to discuss essential topics, including mental health, social justice, career guidance, art and culture, and personal development. Promoting Mental Health Awareness: Episodes of ABCT Teen Talk TV emphasize the importance of mental health, offer coping strategies, and highlight resources available to teenagers. Advocating for Social Justice: The program includes discussions on social justice issues, including racial equality, activism, and the impact of social movements. Career Guidance: ABCT offers insights into various career paths, provides job interview tips, and offers guidance on pursuing higher education. In our afterschool program, students got help with age-appropriate homework from their home base school, where Self-confidence was encouraged using Introduction to acting classes while developing stage presence. Math, English, creative writing, improvisation, auditioning, public speaking, voice and movement, monologue and scene Study, commercial work, and camera technique are all taught in this After school program. This program is perfect for students in training to become the next big name in Hollywood and keep their grades up in school. The program will give students the helping hand they need to stay on task in the classroom and their community. It will provide parents with comfort in knowing their child is getting the help they need and a chance to excel in and out of the classroom. Finally, Anthony Bean Community Theater (ABCT) met the needs of individuals seeking to learn the art of acting, set design, and theater management. In recent years, ABCT has become a vehicle to enter New Orleans's booming "Hollywood South" film industry.

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 94% 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55.5%; rating input score 56
  • Program expense ratio: 53.6%; rating input score 54

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 9; 9th 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: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -15.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -41.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 55.5% of revenue deployed · 53.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $43K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.