Joseph Jefferson Award Committee
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237076932
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.*
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $139,003
- Expenses
- $114,964
- Assets
- $29,351
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- PAULETTE PETRETTI (CHAIR)
- MICHAEL FISCHER (VICE CHAIR)
- KATHY BYRNE (SECRETARY)
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 joseph jefferson awards recognize and advance theatrical excellence in chicago area theaters
What it reported doing in 2025
The 2025 Non-Equity Awards Show was presented to honor theatrical excellence in performance and theater design among Non-Equity theaters in the Chicago area. More than 30 awards were given to individual artists and theaters and over 600 people attended the event.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
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: 17.3%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.1% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.