Bard at the Gate Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871086560
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6464420279
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,106
- Expenses
- $2,391
- Assets
- $17,123
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paula Vogel (President)
People named in this filing
- Paula Vogel (President)
- Rosemary Strub (Secretary)
- Grant Rice (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
In 2025, our organization continued to promote diverse voices in American theater by expanding access to the Bard at the Gate archive-filmed productions by writers from historically underrepresented groups. We partnered with high schools, colleges, and universities, to integrate the plays and post-show discussions into curricula. Our ongoing partnership with Broadway on Demand provided nationwide streaming access to works including: "Shapeshifter" by Laura Schellhardt, "Tent Revival" by Majkin Holmquist, "Cut: A Blasphemy" by Nikki Massoud, "Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder" by Lloyd Suh, "How to Raise a Freeman" by Zakiyyah Alexander, "Passing" by Dipika Guha, "Sonnets for an Old Century" by José Rivera.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program services include producing rehearsed and directed readings of unproduced dramatic works of quality that have been overlooked authored by writers belonging to groups historically denied visibility, expression, and representation by gatekeepers applying standards propagated by the dominate culture. Each film had a virtual premiere that was free to the general public. Additional services included virtual post viewing q&a sessions with audience members allowing the general public to interact with the authors, director, cast, and creative team members to learn about the production itself and the dramatic arts creative process. Our films are distributed and hosted in partnership with Broadway on Demand, along with each films post-show q and a session with the artists. The films currently in active distribution include: "Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light" written and performed by Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, music by Larry Mitchell and directed by Madeline Sayet, "Shapeshifter" by Laura Schellhardt, "Tent Revival" by Majkin Holmquist, "Cut: A Blasphemy" by Nikki Massoud, "Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder" by Lloyd Suh, "How to Raise a Freeman" by Zakiyyah Alexander, "Passing" by Dipika Guha, "Sonnets for an Old Century" by José Rivera. We estimate over 12,000 members of the general public were served by our program services to date.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -116.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.16; rating input score 88; 88th 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: -50% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -49.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -17% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.