Enter Stage Right Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263508229
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Marysville, MI, USA
Phone
8103346415
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Performing Arts Centers

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$138,393
Expenses
$108,756
Assets
$247,878
Liabilities
$4,005

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Regina Spain (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Brian Spain (Board Chair/Treasurer)
  • Regina Spain (Executive Director)
  • David Bennis (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

Enter Stage Rights primary exempt purpose is to bring powerful theatre to entertain, enlighten, and inspire our community. ESR accomplished this goal by producing 9 productions, 3 partnered/community events, 2 theatre based classes, secured 1 grant award to improve our programs and physical space, and continuously improved our artistic and business processes.

What it reported doing in 2025

9 Theatre Productions: Our Town, The Elephant Man, Steel Magnolias, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Home, I'm Darling, The Tragedie of King Lear, The Laramie Project, Dracula, and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer the Musical.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 28
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 25.3%; rating input score 25
  • Program expense ratio: 32.2%; rating input score 32

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: 21.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.28; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 25.3% of revenue deployed · 32.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $35K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.