Fayette County Community Theatre
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814291834
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- La Grange, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9797029368
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $89,118
- Expenses
- $100,176
- Assets
- $35,213
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTEN DENHAM (President)
- BRANDON THEUT (Vice President)
- HEATHER BARTHELME (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- BRENT LOWE (Director)
- RILEY LOWE (Director)
- LAYELAH MARTIN (JR 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
The fayette county community theatre strives to enrich, educate and entertain the community by inviting memebrs to both attend and participate in high quality theatrical productions. The vision of the organization is building community through play.
What it reported doing in 2025
The fayette county community theatre strives to enrich, educate and entertain the commuity by inviting members to both attend and participate in high quality theatrical productions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 56.9%; rating input score 57
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64% of revenue deployed · 56.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.