Front Row Players
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813445310
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Manlius, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9147158310
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $91,039
- Expenses
- $69,198
- Assets
- $40,365
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBORAH CAVANAGH (PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN CAVANAGH (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DEBORAH CAVANAGH (PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN CAVANAGH (VICE PRESIDENT)
- IRIS EVANS (BOARD 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
We are a musical theater group for adults of all abilities. The mission of the corporation is to nuture and inspire dramatic performance in adults of all abilities, deliver high quality arts/music instruction in a supportive environment, and provide a venue for each actor to share their voice and passion for performance with their community
What it reported doing in 2025
There are two semesters, each ending with a performancewhich is provided to our community. There are 38 actorsenrolled in each semester.
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 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 49.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.1% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $67K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.