Arizona Theatre Matters
Legal name: Arizona Theater Matters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461458976
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Glendale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4807764543
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $420,380
- Expenses
- $416,048
- Assets
- $20,734
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeanmarie Bishop (President)
- John McCann (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Dineta Williams-Trigg (Director)
- Ina Shivack (Director)
- Jeanmarie Bishop (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Arizona Theatre Matters creates universally accessible theatre, integrating caption, description, and sign into every performance from the ground up.
What it reported doing in 2025
Arizona Theatre Matters' primary program service is the creation and free public distribution of professionally produced, fully accessible digital theatre. The organization develops and releases original and classic theatrical works designed from inception to be accessible to Blind and Deaf audiences, integrating audio description, American Sign Language performance, and inclusive casting practices as core artistic elements rather than accommodations. During the reporting period, Arizona Theatre Matters produced and released multiple digital theatre works via its public YouTube channel, reaching a global audience of more than 100,000 subscribers and tens of thousands of individual viewers. Productions featured Deaf sign language performers on screen, Blind voice actors in audio roles, and creative teams led by artists from the communities served. All programming was offered free of charge to the public, removing economic, geographic, and physical barriers to participation. The organization's work prioritizes audiences historically excluded from live theatre, including Blind, Deaf, low-income, rural, and home-based viewers, while also serving educators, libraries, and community organizations through ongoing digital access. Program accomplishments include the completion and release of multiple full-length and short-form productions, national and international viewership growth, and the establishment of a sustainable digital theatre model centered on accessibility, artistic excellence, and public benefit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.5%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 92.5% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $389K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.