Great Small Works Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133862351
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9173198104
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,720
- Expenses
- $135,130
- Assets
- $162,892
- Liabilities
- $43,566
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARILYN DONINI (PRESIDENT)
- PHILLIP SHUNG (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENNY ROMAINE (BOARD MEMBER)
- TRUDI COHEN (TREASURER)
- ROBERTO ROSSI (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
The organization is committed to creating and presenting theatrical work of high artistic quality, addressing contemporary social issues, exploring popular theater forms as they combine with forms of organizations own invention, and fostering a sense of community with its work.
What it reported doing in 2025
Creation and presentation of theatrical works: performances have been held throughout nyc, the united states, and europe.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.1%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.1% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.