Mct Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810332120
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Missoula, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4067281911
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,393,750
- Expenses
- $6,241,996
- Assets
- $5,457,557
- Liabilities
- $2,077,296
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RYAN PHELAN (PRESIDENT)
- JENNY MUELLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LAURA BOVARD (PAST PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL K MORELLI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL K MORELLI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $127,124 total reported compensation
- KATHERINE RAUP (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $110,425 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering children and adults through theatre education and performance to develop lifelong skills while enriching communities worldwide through live productions.
What it reported doing in 2024
International tour project (red truck tour) - mct's oldest and largest program tours throughout all the states, canada, and overseas to schools and to us military bases worldwide. In the fiscal year ended may 31, 2025, mct conducted 945 weeklong residencies nationally and abroad. Mct's touring actor/directors (tads) tour in pairs, drive signature red trucks and work with a different cast of 55-65 children at each weekly tour stop. Tads come to town at the invitation of a community organization such as a school, parents' group, military base, arts council, youth center and more to transform several duffel bags of costumes and set pieces into a musical for the community - in less than a week. Many of these small communities are rarely visited by theatre companies. A residency entails casting local children in an original children's musical, performed for an audience after an intense week of rehearsals. Currently, mct has 31 touring shows, all based on classic fairy tales. The residency also includes 3 art enrichment workshops. In fiscal year '25, 945 residencies was an opportunity to cast 40,891 children as cast members; teach numerous workshops; perform 1,588 shows; and entertain a total audience of approximately 221,300 people of all ages. Mct has incorporated an intergenerational residency week into the programming. The same scripts, costumes, and sets are used but the team auditions a cast that ranges in age from 5-105. School age children participate with senior citizens and the mct missions of developing life skills flourishes for all those who participate.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.4% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.