Backyard Playhouse Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921439572
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,720
- Expenses
- $55,436
- Assets
- $11,144
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paige Loter (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Paige Loter (Executive Director)
- Calista Loter (Artistic Director)
- Allen Elliott (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
To provide education in all aspects of live theatre
What it reported doing in 2025
Produced 5 live theatre production this year. Productions involved 50-100 audience members per forformance 5 was crew of adults and children: approximately 150 people
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for member benefits.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.6%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 33.4%; rating input score 33
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.6% of revenue deployed · 33.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.