Montana Playwrights Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815020636
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Helena, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4062350353
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,338
- Expenses
- $61,980
- Assets
- $93,566
- Liabilities
- $67,047
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pamela Jamruszka-Mencher (President/Executive Director)
- Rob Holter (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Pamela Jamruszka-Mencher (President/Executive Director)
- Rob Holter (Vice President)
- Pearl Allen (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
Incorporated in 2016 as a state-wide, 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, the Montana Playwrights Network's purpose is to highlight the creation and sharing of stories about and for Montanans. Its mission supports the development of playwrights, storytellers, writers, performers, and their creative works. MPN offers conferences, public performances and other events to facilitate creative self-expression and cultural enrichment through applications of Story principles. MPN particularly supports the cultural expression of Native communities in non-native environments.
What it reported doing in 2025
2. New Works and Education Programming: The Montana Playwrights Network (MPN) offers a variety of programs that educate, train and enlighten attendees and provide forums for the interchange of current social and cultural themes and topics important to Montanans. These programs include theatre productions, improv and stand-up comedy, concerts, conferences, and classes as well as entertainments such as the MPN Premiere Project, the annual Montana Writers Rodeo, acting, directing and writing classes, MPN's Project Inkubator, and MPN's "Page To Stage" Reading Series that highlight original works in progress created by Montana authors and playwrights. The reading series also stimulates and facilitates thoughtful, thematic discussions between attending audience members and participants. The number of people benefiting from MPN's new works and education programming is estimated annually between 500 and 600.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.8%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.72; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.