Junior Theatre Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 426091538
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Davenport, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5638882227
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,794
- Expenses
- $115,129
- Assets
- $13,782
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nicole Savatski (President)
- Livv Goff (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Bonnie Sloat (Secretary)
- Neil Young (Treasurer)
- Nicole Savatski (President)
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
Junior Theatre Inc exists to creatively enrich the lives of Quad City area youth by offering education in the art and craft of theatre. As America's second oldest children's theatre, we have a legacy of impact on youth and the community. Collaborating with Davenport Parks and Recreation, we produce mainstage productions free to the community, invest in the work of classes, camps, and workshops that reach more then 2,000 enrollments annually from 40 cities and towns, levy collaborative dollars through grants and donors, build alumni networks, and share the rich history of this program with the broader community. We believe every child deserves to engage this world with clarity, confidence, and creativity no matter where life may lead them. We also continue to proudly employee Quad City Area artists through our mainstage company, creating an even stronger ecosystem of artists in the quad cities to impact youth.
What it reported doing in 2025
This year we served and help support serving over 2,000 enrollments with students from over 40 cities and towns to successfully access the arts. The average student receives 20+ direct led hours of instruction per enrollment. We increased access to the theatre arts with ASL interpreted productions free of charge. Sensory checkout bags were also created to help youth with sensory process disorder participate in the theatre, providing over ears protection, light reducing glasses, fidgets, and other activities to help neuro divergent youth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.3%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 1
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 1.3% of revenue deployed · 1.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.