Franklin Theatrical Fellowship

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
991317026
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Nashville, TN, USA
Rating
36
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Theater

Reported finances

Revenue
$160,929
Expenses
$155,055
Assets
$5,874
Liabilities
$35,000

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROB MCCRAY (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ROB MCCRAY (PRESIDENT)
  • CASSIE LEFEVOR (VICE PRESIDE)
  • BEN GREGG (TREASURER)

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

Bringing human beings together through the shared experience of live theatre and making those experiences accessible to all.

What it reported doing in 2025

Franklin theatrical fellowship ftf is a semi-professional non-profit theatre company based in franklin tn. We strive to bring the kind of arts programming to our city that not only entertains an audience with excellence but also challenges all of us to be a better community. We believe that the telling of stories and the sharing of laughter tears songs or powerful words can help us understand and connect to one another more fully. This vision for high-quality arts-based fellowship guides us toward the following core values: enrichment civil discourse hospitality equality & generosity. We have accomplished this through multiple mainstage theatrical productions at accessible pricing offering free talkbacks after those performances youth workshops free tickets for at risk youth and public school theatre teachers and scholarships for arts programming for teens.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 1
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0.9%; rating input score 1
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.96; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -84.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0.9% of revenue deployed
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.