Nat'l Asian American Theatre Festival
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260289268
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122440447
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,404
- Expenses
- $137,789
- Assets
- $237,586
- Liabilities
- $3,032
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LESLIE ISHII (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LESLIE ISHII (PRESIDENT)
- KT SHORB (VICE PRESIDE)
- ROGER TANG (SECRETARY)
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
Raise public awareness as to the vitally important contributions that asian american artists make to the fabric of american culture and to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the growing influence of asian americans on many aspects of american life. Based in New York city, the organization serves as a national platform for professional asian american theatre companies or presenters and individual american asian artists from across the country and hosts a biennial national asian american theatre conference and festival.
What it reported doing in 2025
Raise public awareness as to the vitally important contributions that asian american artists make to the fabric of american culture and to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the growing influence of asian americans on many aspects of american life.
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
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -98.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 47.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $111K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.