Mockingbird Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474100388
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Monroeville, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2517433386
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,015
- Expenses
- $161,443
- Assets
- $208,126
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TONJA B CARTER (PRESIDENT)
- CATHY BAKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TONJA B CARTER (PRESIDENT)
- CATHY BAKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ERIN CARTER (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
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
Mockingbird company will preserve the ritual performance of the adaptation of the pulitzer prize winning novel,"to kill a mockingbird", by harper lee as a play in monroeville, Alabama, and such other locations as may be authorized from time to time by the board of directors. Mockingbird company will insure that the literary significance and the historical contribution made by "to kill a mockingbird" in its dramatization of the evolution of human rights in the south will continue to be experienced by everyone in perpetuity. Mockingbird company will charge admission to the performances of "to kill a mockingbird and utilize the net proceeds from such ticket sales to provide supplemental support to Alabama communities as designated by the board of directors, with preference being given to communities in monroe county, Alabama.
What it reported doing in 2025
Charging admission to the performances of "to kill a mockingbird" in monroeville, Alabama, and other designated locations, and utilizing the net proceeds from such ticket sales to provide supplemental support to Alabama communities as designated by the board of directors, with preference being given to communities in monroe county, Alabama.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.4%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
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: 9.8%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 67; 67th 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: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.4% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $140K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.