East Texas Performing Arts Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461904829
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Marshall, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9254973915
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $22,159
- Expenses
- $32,028
- Assets
- $422
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sarah Whitaker (President)
- Preston Taylor (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Sarah Whitaker (President)
- Preston Taylor (Vice President)
- Matt Higgins (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
East Texas Performing Arts provides arts education and performance opportunities to the underserved and disenfranchised in East Texas. We develop community appreciation for, and participation in drama and musical arts by producing amateur and professional presentations such as plays, musicals, concerts, acting and life skills classes and festivals and provide performing arts education opportunities to the general public.Special emphasis on breaking down cultural and racial barriers, providing children and youth, particularly those with physical, developmental, economic, cognitive, and emotional burdens and limitations, and extended outreach to youth and adults that are part of underserved populations within East Texas. All productions are at no cost to participants.
What it reported doing in 2025
During the year, East Texas Performing Arts produced various performances to provide performing arts education opportunities to the general public.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: NotEnoughData
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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -44.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.