Kitchen Dog Theater
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752363639
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2149532258
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $477,409
- Expenses
- $378,860
- Assets
- $2,887,231
- Liabilities
- $1,149,221
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALEXANDER ALBRITTON (PRESIDENT)
- PEGGY KAUFMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TINA PARKER (COMPANY MANAGER): $48,900 total reported compensation
- TIM JOHNSON (MANAGING DIRECTOR): $47,500 total reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER CARLOS (CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR): $20,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
It is the mission of kitchen dog theater to provide a place where questions of justice, morality and human freedom can be explored.we choose plays that challege our moral and social consciences, invite our audiences to be provoked, challenged, and amazed. We believe that the theater is a site of individual discovery as well as a force against conventional views of the self and experience. It is not a provider of answers, but an invitation to question. Since theater of this kind is not bound by any tradition, kitchen dog theater is committed to exploring these questions whether they are found in the classics, contemporary works, or new plays.
What it reported doing in 2024
Kitchen dog theater (kdt) provided three or more productions during the year that contributed to american culture and engendered emotional and intellectual challenges to the audiences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.3%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 43%; rating input score 43
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.6%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.62; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.3% of revenue deployed · 43% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $163K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $49K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.