Elizabeth Youth Theater Ensemble
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800948665
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Elizabeth, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9082307044
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $274,068
- Expenses
- $257,719
- Assets
- $20,250
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Theodore Perkins (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Theodore Perkins (President): $50,700 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
EYTE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing high-quality theater education and performance opportunities to the youth of Elizabeth, promoting artistic expression, personal growth, and community engagement. The Elizabeth Youth Theater Ensemble's mission is centered upon strengthening the voices of young artists. Utilizing theater-arts based curricula, EYTE provides creative learning opportunities for the youth of city and global majorities, where they gain experiences that empower self and community.
What it reported doing in 2024
1. Walking the Beat (WTB): Arts-Based Youth Violence Prevention Program Purpose Achievement: Walking the Beat is EYTE's flagship program, utilizing theater arts to prevent youth violence and foster community engagement. The program serves youth ages 14-20 from high-risk environments in Union County, NJ, with a focus on Elizabeth. Through creative disciplines-such as devised theater, music production, VR filmmaking, oral history, and writing-youth develop critical life skills, process trauma, and engage in dialogue with law enforcement. In 2024, the program served 150+ youth and 30+ law enforcement officers. It also incorporated trauma-informed care, Juvenile Justice Jeopardy workshops, and mindfulness practices, demonstrating measurable improvements in self-efficacy and emotional regulation among participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 21
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -37% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $258K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $51K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.