Exitheatre
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942967043
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Arcata, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4158634120
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $164,335
- Expenses
- $142,652
- Assets
- $135,726
- Liabilities
- $3,261
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTINA AUGELLO (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- GEOFFREY LINK (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTINA AUGELLO (VICE-PRESIDENT): $16,949 total reported compensation
- RICHARD LIVINGSTON (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $16,949 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of exitheatre is to provide opportunities for artists to perform and to develop an audience for that performance
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing opportunities for artists to perform by developing, producing and presenting theater performances.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 46
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.2%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -29.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.6% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $126K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $17K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.