Applause Childrens Theater
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813760505
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Paso Robles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8056107187
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $130,977
- Expenses
- $123,578
- Assets
- $112,260
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANNIE THOMAS (PRESIDENT)
- TIM BOJORQUEZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANNIE THOMAS (PRESIDENT)
- VICKY MULLIN (DIRECTOR)
- TIM BOJORQUEZ (VICE 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
Youth to perform in broadway musicals
What it reported doing in 2025
Shrek-children ages 5-17 performed in broadway play. Cast size about 60 kids, and seven showings. Received standing ovation.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.6%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 47.3%; rating input score 47
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.6% of revenue deployed · 47.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.