Naked Angels

What it reported doing in 2024

Naked angels' educational programs 3t creative arts workshops delivered free of charge by a team of 2-5 teaching artists per workshop, 3t provides creative arts workshops for youth ages 12-26 in alternative schools, foster care residences, and juvenile justice settings in New York city. In a typical 3t workshop, teaching artists lead theater games, creative writing prompts, and performance exercises designed to build confidence, communication skills, and safety in self-expression. Young people are invited to write scenes, poems, or songs and then see their words immediately brought to life by professional artists-an experience that affirms the value of their voices and lived experiences.in the 2024-25 school year, we led 22 workshops at outreach house in ridgewood, serving youth ages 13-20 facing substance abuse challenges and incarceration-related restrictions. At restart eagle academy in harlem, we brought 21 workshops, reaching students ages 14-17 who are academically under-credited and navigating low confidence and high absenteeism. Our eighth year partnering with chelsea foyer in manhattan continued to support young adults ages 18-26 aging out of foster care, complemented by 1:1 coaching that provides sustained creative mentorship during their transition to independent living. At martin de porres, a foster home for boys ages 12-17, we delivered 17 workshops serving youth with a wide range of abilities, including autism and trauma-related needs. In east New York, we delivered eight workshops at rose house, a residential program for teenage girls in the juvenile justice system, where strong engagement prompted the organization to request twice-monthly visits. Tuesdays@9 now in its 36th season in New York city, our flagship program tuesdays@9 is one of the longest-running cold-reading series in the country, inspiring chapters in chicago and los angeles. Hosted weekly, tuesdays@9 intentionally subverts traditional gatekeeping models by remaining completely free and open to the public. Each city is supported by a leadership team of 2-4 artists with at least one director of color per chapter, ensuring both equity and shared stewardship. On tuesday nights, in nyc alone, over 120 artists and audience members gather in a shared act of discovery. Each week, our creative directors review submissions of new work and select five writers to bring in ten pages for a live cold read. Designed as a low-pressure, high-support environment, tuesdays@9 gives writers the rare opportunity to hear their work aloud often for the first time while fostering collaboration across age, race, gender identity, ability, and artistic discipline. 1st mondays for many artists, tuesdays@9 is just the beginning. Writers who first test short excerpts in our weekly cold-reading series are invited to continue developing their work through 1st mondays, a reading series created to support full-length plays and screenplays. Founded in 2003, 1st mondays serves as the next step in our artistic pipeline, bringing writers, actors, and audiences together in a free, supportive space to experience complete works in community.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 62.2%; rating input score 62
• Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82

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: 23.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 28.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings