Musical Dramatic Arts Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871937144
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Marietta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 9802492924
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,662
- Expenses
- $46,788
- Assets
- $50,704
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Douglas Tappin (Executive Director)
- Georgette Gigi Dixon (Director + President)
People named in this filing
- Douglas Tappin (Executive Director)
- Georgette Gigi Dixon (Director + President)
- Arlene Ferebee (Director + Secretary (to June 2025))
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
Per Article I, Section 2 of the establishing Bylaws, the specific purpose for which the Corporation is organized is to provide charitable and humanitarian services and to also engage in activities which are necessary, suitable or convenient for the accomplishment of that purpose, or which are incidental thereto or connected therewith which are consistent with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
What it reported doing in 2025
EDUCATION: (1) Developing and producing musical-dramatic works with inspirational themes, adjacent to growth-oriented opportunities; and (2) nurturing emerging storytellers and voices in k-12, higher educational and professional settings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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. 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: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.3%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 53.3%; rating input score 53
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: 33.8%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -72% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -29% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -25% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.3% of revenue deployed · 53.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 35/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.