Da Poetry Lounge Co

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873151745
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$181,054
Expenses
$181,022
Assets
$765

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JASMINE WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DERRICK HARRIS (SECRETARY)
  • JASMINE WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT)
  • COURTNIE EVERIDGE (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

Da Poetry Lounge provides a home for Los Angeles based artists, storytellers, and community, giving artists who may not otherwise be able afford it an opportunity to build their followings, showcase their talent, and build their careers. DPL serves around 10,000 individuals every year.

What it reported doing in 2025

Artist resources - DPL's artist resources include our Artist in Residence Programs, Creative Studios, and curation of talent to create opportunities for artists to be commissioned by outside talent scouting and production companies.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 70% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 0%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 40.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 37.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $181K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.