Earsay Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311669271
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sunnyside, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7187844066
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $194,901
- Expenses
- $144,613
- Assets
- $137,784
- Liabilities
- $25,181
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUDITH SLOAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- WARREN LEHRER (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, PRESIDE)
- JUDITH SLOAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- SUSAN PERLSTIEN (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Earsay is an artist driven non-profit arts organization dedicated to uncovering and portraying the uncelebrated. The projects bridge the divide between documentary and expressive forms in books. Exhibitions, on stage, in sound & electronic media. The organization is committed to fostering understanding across cultures, generations, gender and class through artistic productions and education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Uncovering and portraying stories of the uncelebrated and bridging the divide between documentary and expressive forms in books, exhibitions, on stage, in sound & electronic media.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.1%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
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: 25.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.1% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $125K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.