Endangered Species Theatre Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842025864
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-PF 2020
- Location
- Frederick, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3013051405
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $168,501
- Expenses
- $169,619
- Assets
- $242
- Liabilities
- $1,742
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sharon Edelstein (Board President)
- Cindy Shubin (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Christine Mosere (Artistic Director)
- Deanna Kinzie (Creative Director)
- Sharon Edelstein (Board President)
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
The Endangered Species theatre Projects mission is to bring enjoyment and understanding through live theatre that proactively focuses on diverse representation We do this by - a giving voice to forgotten plays and playwrights b producing plays that increase representation of women over age 40 and other historically excluded artists on the stage and c making vital connections between people of all generations
What it reported doing in 2025
Description Arts and Education Program -- includes a Classes for those age 8 thru 80 b Riotous Youth Shakespeare productions classes and mentorships InteGREAT our age 8 - 16 dDeafhearing theatre program classes and fairytale show c Teen Production Company NOTE Youth education within the Shakespeare Festival is included in line 29
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.1%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 0
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: -0.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 7.2; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -24.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.1% of revenue deployed · 0.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $93 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.