Fright Town Eastside

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
333585530
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Sammamish, WA, USA
Phone
9512339708
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$31,864
Expenses
$24,923
Assets
$82,703

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jessica Devine (President)
  • Sam Devine (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Jessica Devine (President)
  • Sam Devine (Vice President)
  • Rachel D'Souza (Co-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

Fright Town Eastside builds community on the Eastside of King County WA through participatory arts and theater programming including an all-volunteer community haunted house improvisational theater and arts workshops for teens and adult community members and grants in support of other youth-serving and community charities.

What it reported doing in 2025

All-volunteer community haunted house. Fright Town Eastside operated its all-volunteer community haunted house in Sammamish WA drawing participants and audiences from across Sammamish Issaquah Redmond and Bellevue. The haunted house is the organizations signature public program and primary fundraising vehicle. Admission to the haunted house is open to the public; supporters make voluntary contributions on-site or online. During the 2025 season more than 300 individuals attended the haunted house without making any contribution demonstrating the voluntary nature of donor support. The organization charges no admission fee sells no concessions conducts no gaming or raffles and offers no goods or services of fair market value in exchange for contributions. Expenses funded venue rent construction supplies marketing and outreach insurance food for volunteers and event-related operating costs. Direct event expenses are reported on Form 990-EZ Line 6c and detailed on Schedule G

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21.8%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.32; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $46K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.