Happystars Youth Program Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852828465
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Trinity, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8132105460
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $442,277
- Expenses
- $340,649
- Assets
- $139,585
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James Fuarote (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- James Fuarote (Executive Director): $55,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Center Stage Youth Theatre is an inclusive organization whose purpose is to unlock the potential of our students through theatre. We aim to inspire personal growth ignite creativity and cultivate leadership skills. We believe in the transformative power of the arts and our theater experiences serve as catalysts for self-expression teamwork and empathy. Every student regardless of their abilities is encouraged to explore their unique talents and embrace their individuality within our supportive community. At Center Stage we strive to produce brave creative leaders.
What it reported doing in 2025
Center Stage Youth Theatre provides theatrical education and performance opportunities for children and teens through year-round programming in Pasco County and the surrounding communities. Programs include full-scale musical theatre productions educational classes summer camps workshops and advanced performance training. Through participation in rehearsals and public performances students develop confidence creativity leadership teamwork communication skills and empathy while receiving high-quality performing arts education in an inclusive and supportive environment. During the year the organization served hundreds of students and presented multiple public theatrical performances for the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 89% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.4%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.4% of revenue deployed · 84.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $289K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 42 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PayrollTaxes column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.