Eressea

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
953335844
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Kempton, PA, USA
Phone
6107049132
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Theater

Reported finances

Revenue
$143,540
Expenses
$98,863
Assets
$432,713
Liabilities
$434,305

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Carl Odhner (President)
  • Roger M Schrock (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Carl Odhner (President)
  • Barbara Grant (Secretary)
  • Roger M Schrock (Vice 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To expose as many of the world's children as possible to the wisdom contained in the world's sacred and classic literature, mythology and folklore, through the art forms of puppetry, storytelling and creative dramatics.

What it reported doing in 2024

Public benefit performing arts company by California classification providing storytelling, puppetry, educational creative dramatics, marionettes, and other family-oriented theatrical performances. 951 performances served estimated total audience of 40,337 in FY 2024-25

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 56%; rating input score 56
  • Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 31.1%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.38; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 56% of revenue deployed · 81.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.