Big Dawg Theatre Company Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333494141
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wilmington, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9103992230
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,609
- Expenses
- $115,422
- Assets
- $5,769
- 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
- Terri Hsu (President)
- Zach Peschl (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Steve Vernon (Artistic Director)
- Terri Hsu (President)
- Zach Peschl (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
To enrich our community through dynamic theater experiences that inspire, educate, and entertain. Vision: A vibrant, inclusive space where stories come alive and creativity thrives. Big Dawg Theatre Company is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to producing high-quality live performances, offering educational programs, and fostering a supportive creative space for artists and audiences alike.
What it reported doing in 2025
Through accessible ticket pricing, community partnerships, and targeted outreach, Big Dawg Theatre Company ensured that high-quality theatre remained available to residents across socioeconomic backgrounds. The company facilitated talkbacks, community discussions, and post-show converssations that deepened audience understanding of the themes presented onstage. These programs encouraged civic dialogue, historical awareness, and cultural literacy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
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: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.6%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 2
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 1.6% of revenue deployed · 1.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.