Diversify the Stage Programs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883333150
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Topanga, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104559300
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $157,541
- Expenses
- $291,796
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NOELLE SCAGGS (President)
People named in this filing
- NOELLE SCAGGS (President)
- MELISSA RENEE (Secretary)
- JAIME STREET (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization counts on the support of artists and industry professionals to collectively create a culture of accountability and help foster more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and accessible concerts, events, and touring workforces for historically marginalized and underrepresented communities through Education, Advocacy, Investment, and Action.
What it reported doing in 2023
Investing in the next generation of music industry leaders by developing the DTS Apprenticeship Program. Engaging with like-minded industry centered organizations like: Music Forward Foundation, She Is The Music, WellDunn, Sound Girls, and Power Up Presents to help widen the net of education, mentorship, and workforce opportunities for college-age candidates from communities underserved and often overlooked, who are looking to break into the live entertainment and productions industry. The Three-Phased program includes a virtual Masterclass Series, Mentorship Placement, and Workforce Placement for 25 individuals, inviting experienced leaders to engage in dialogue, support participant's career journeys, and deepen their community impact.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.6%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 14.9%; rating input score 15
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -85.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.6% of revenue deployed · 14.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.