Evergreen Theater Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
391519408
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Green Bay, WI, USA
Phone
6236802795
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Reported finances

Revenue
$693,408
Expenses
$204,041
Assets
$1,106,374
Liabilities
$266,406

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michael Ajango (President)
  • Tony Brunette (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Michael Ajango (President)
  • Tony Brunette (Vice President)
  • Melisa Quaintance (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Evergreen Theater Inc. is a community theater company supporting the greater Green Bay WI area. We are committed to offering professional quality entertainment for our audiences while advancing the arts in our community. Being the original multi-generational live theater group in Northeast Wisconsin both Mainstage and Young Actor productions we take pride in cultivating area talent by providing educational opportunities at no cost to participants in all facets of the performing arts.

What it reported doing in 2025

Mainstage Productions staged primarily with adult actors: During FYE 6 30 2026 Evergreen Theater Inc. produced Radio Dramas: A Night with Orson Welles Dracula and War of the Worlds; A Christmas Carol; Sound of Music; and On Golden Pond. Over 2,300 patrons attended these shows and 300 actors production crew and others were involved in staging these productions. Evergreen Theater staffs all of its productions with volunteers--both cast and crew--drawn from the greater Green Bay area as well as throughout the state of Wisconsin. Directors and Designers are paid a small honorarium but the love of theater is what drives all of the volunteers involved in the shows to make theater the best it can be.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 24.2%; rating input score 24
  • Program expense ratio: 79.7%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $243.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: 70.6%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.42; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 31% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 52.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 67.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 24.2% of revenue deployed · 79.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $163K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 24/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.