Covered Bridge Players
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463190631
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Oneonta, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2052747469
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,308
- Expenses
- $47,802
- Assets
- $43,300
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Zach Buse (President)
- Sharon Breaseale (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Zach Buse (President)
- Sharon Breaseale (Vice President)
- Michelle Humphrey (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 covered bridge players will facilitate the development of cultural and artistic enlightenment for the citizens of blount county and surrounding communities. The projects of the covered bridge players will seek to stimulate, educate, entertain and educate the audience by providing an opportunity to inspsire, nurture, challenge and empower the artist to bridge the chasm between the consumer of the art and the artists.
What it reported doing in 2024
The covered bridge players produced six theatrical productions of quality during the year. This creates opportunities for community participation in the theatrical productions, celebrates the significance of the dramatic performing arts and provides a hands on learning experience in theatre production.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% 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 and revenue has grown recently. 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: 60
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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 53.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st 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 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.