Musical Theatre Educators' Alliance
Legal name: Musical Theatre Educators Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261122018
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Cape Girardeau, MO, USA
- Phone
- 9175748615
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,640
- Expenses
- $95,972
- Assets
- $71,082
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA HUMPHREY (PRESIDENT)
- LAUREN HAUGHTON GILLIS (CO-VICE PRESIDENT OF CONFE)
- AARON BROWN (CO-VICE PRESIDENT OF CONFE)
- DEVON HUNT (VICE PRESIDENT FOR MEMBERS)
People named in this filing
- ANDRE GARNER (AT-LARGE MEMBER)
- LEO YU-NING CHANG (ASIA/OCEANA DIRECTOR)
- JESSICA HUMPHREY (PRESIDENT)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To shape the future of musical theatre education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mtea holds an annual conference (the "annual conference") and meeting convening its membership. At the annual conference, presenters from all over the world share pedagogical ideas, methods, and lead workshops focused on musical theatre education. Members and non-members are eligible to attend the annual conference and are assessed an admissions fee, and mtea provides graduate students studying musical theatre with no-cost admission to the annual conference.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% 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.
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 and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.3%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.6%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 12 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 92.3% of revenue deployed · 74.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.