Blessed Unrest Theatre Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113662328
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8045142122
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,987
- Expenses
- $117,509
- Assets
- $57,429
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laura Wickens (Board President)
- Arthur Strimling (Board President Emeritus)
People named in this filing
- Jessica Burr (Artistic Director, Board of Directors Member)
- Laura Wickens (Board President)
- Damen Scranton (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The creation and presentation of live theatrical performance.
What it reported doing in 2024
We rehearsed and performed a reimagined version of "La Musica Deuxieme" by Marguerite Duras at the Downtown Upstate festival in September 2024. We rehearsed, developed, and performed an original devised play "Nine Moons" by playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb which cumulated in a 3 week production run in May 2025 at Theater For The New City in NYC. We began developing the play "Sermons On Miranda Lambert" by Jenn Allen in June 2025 at ART/NY rehearsal studios. We hosted free, twice monthly, acting training sessions for our ensemble of actors working towards the development of new devised plays. All projects were directed by Jessica Burr, involved over 100 artists, and reached nearly 1,000 audience members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.8%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 98.9%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.8% of revenue deployed · 98.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $116K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.