Dare to Defy Productions Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472897868
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Fairborn, OH, USA
Phone
9376238357
Rating
61
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Theater

Reported finances

Revenue
$189,551
Expenses
$189,982
Assets
$888
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Philip Drennen (Executive Director)
  • David Moyer (Board President)
  • Rebecca Norgaard (CEO/Treasurer)

People named in this filing

  • Philip Drennen (Executive Director)
  • David Moyer (Board President)
  • Rebecca Norgaard (CEO/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

Provide paid artistic opportunities to local artists, affordable professional arts entertainment to local audiences and accesible and affordable arts education to local youth and adults.

What it reported doing in 2025

Theatrical productions provided paid artistic opportunities to 67 local artists. Provided affordable professional art entertainment to more than 1,600 local audience members and provided arts education to 18 youths and 15 adults

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 69% 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

SUPPORTED - 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: 39
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 38.7%; rating input score 39
  • Program expense ratio: 38.6%; rating input score 39

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 26.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 38.7% of revenue deployed · 38.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.