Interactive Drama for Education and Awareness in the Schools Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
113522723
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2017
Forms available
Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2017
Location
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Phone
7183326406
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,535
Expenses
$7,460
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • AUBREY DASQUE (Treasurer)
  • BRANDON JACKSON (Secretary)
  • LISA DENNETT (Chairperson)

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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Interactive drama for education and awareness in the schools (ideas) wasestablished to offer participatory drama programs to disadvantaged youth and youthwith disabilities, at the heart of a well-rounded education that focuses on theindividual. Our primarily focus is youth populations that are routinely excludedfrom drama and theater experiences, using drama as a teaching and learning tool.these populations include youth with physical, sensory and cognitive disabilitiesas well as other disadvantages, be they social, economic or geographic, providingequal access to participatory drama opportunities.

What it reported doing in 2017

Creative drama: in creative drama youth enact familiar stories, or base their improvised scenarios on what they see from a photograph or a book title, a simple suggestio of a prop or costume piece. We focus on dramatic structure, learning to answer the questions of who (characters), where (setting), what (action) and why (main idea), increasing their literacy skills with an optional peformance component. For diabled and disadvantaged youth.sociodrama: through improvisation students explore a variety of consequences, positive and negative, that comes with acting or behaving a different way and try out appropriate behavior and outcomes. While they learn about how to create fictitious characters and stories they are also learning about themselves and the world around them. They can do this witht he safety net of a character, even referring to themselves by a different name, thus creating a different persona to safely try out unfamiliar actions in familiar or unfamiliar settings and situations. For youth with disabilities and other disadvantages.professional development: information and training workshops for professionals who work in the arts with youth with disabilities.parent workshops: creative workshops that help parents interact with their children.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 3
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -386%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 29%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -17.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -22% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2010 to 2017
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.