Indiana Musical Theatre Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834025556
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN, USA
- Phone
- 2604170213
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,472
- Expenses
- $162,717
- Assets
- $110,113
- Liabilities
- $5,730
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chris Wesner (President)
- Rob Evans (President Emeri)
- Andrew Sherman (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Chris Wesner (President)
- Leslie Koehlinger Russ (Secretary)
- Kathy Antibus (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
The Indiana Musical Theatre Foundation is proud to provide its participants with a bigger challenge as actors, singers, dancers, musicians and technicians. IMTF is driven to present stage productions for the community of Fort Wayne that will amplify our communitys artistic culture through the theatrical experience. IMTF is dedicated to produce theatre on a professional level, as well as explore new, original, and innovative works of theatre from playwrights in the Fort Wayne Area. IMTF takes pride in being a safe place organization that encourages individuals from all walks of life to participate in their productions, no matter their prior theatre experience.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Indiana Musical Theatre Foundation put on 8 performances. Please see Schedule O.
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 99% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.2%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.2% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $150K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.