Christian Performance Theatre Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264243265
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Phone
- 3166821688
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $344,535
- Expenses
- $353,271
- Assets
- $175,859
- Liabilities
- $9,631
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS ANDERSON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- AMY EDWARDS (EXECUTIVE DI): $55,217 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Christian performance theatre inc (cpt) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization designed for educational purposes in the performing arts. Specifically, an after-school program whereby students train in voice, drama, dance, improvisation, musical theatre, and more.
What it reported doing in 2025
The local community is vital to the ongoing mission. While there is no commercial office space, limited resources are used to lease space for classrooms, rehearsals, performances, prop and costume storage, and warehouses where sets are constructed and stored. Currently there are 3 programs, camps, classes & enrollment shows, and show productions. Summer camps: camps and workshops are offered during the summer months, mixing games, summer fun, and opportunities for learning and growth in theatrical skills. Each camp ends with the campers performing in a music theatre showcase for families, friends, and local community patrons. Workshops held on june 16, july 11, july 25 had 35, 16, and 10 participants respectively. Kids camp (ages 5 to 12) was held june 23-27 and had 129 campers. Theme was dare to dream jr. Teen camp (ages 13 to 18) was held july 14-18 and had 52 campers. Theme was songs from shows that we probably will never put on stage
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 62% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 62.7%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.5%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.3% of revenue deployed · 62.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $221K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.