Drama Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300836513
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9175700564
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $834,450
- Expenses
- $1,269,359
- Assets
- $820,725
- Liabilities
- $68,908
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JOSIE WHITTLESEY (EXECUTIVE DI): $110,715 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Form 990, part iii, line 1 - organization mission drama club, inc. Our mission is to consistently care for youth who are incarcerated and court-involved by creating space for them to thrive, using improv as their guide. Drama club's core values of love, respect, and consistency are reflected in theater-making that promotes positive youth development and deepens social-emotional learning. The organization runs programs at rikers island, horizon, and crossroads juvenile detention centers, as well as alternative-to-detention and post incarceration programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization's goals include strengthening the self-concept of youth participants and the ability to apply learned skills to real life circumstances, increasing transformational relationships with mentors and peers, increasing safe spaces for young people to explore healthy risk- taking, increasing institutional buy-in and staff support of arts programming for incarcerated and justice involved youth, and strengthening the field of arts programming through collecting research on mitigating trauma and enhancing healing for justice-involved young people. The organization runs multi-site, multi-program company of improv theatre workshops, classes and performances that serves approximately 500-700 youth annually who are incarcerated, involved or at high risk for involvement with the criminal legal system.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -52.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.