Places Productions Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
842119189
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Queen Creek, AZ, USA
Phone
6023274228
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Music

Reported finances

Revenue
$90,423
Expenses
$86,265
Assets
$10,364

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Allison Zuccaro (President)

People named in this filing

  • Allison Zuccaro (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Places! is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that began producing musical theatre programs in 2016. Places' mission is to provide performing arts education and opportunities through summer programs, traveling performance troupes, and fully produced musicals and plays. We believe strongly that the arts should be accessible to everyone and have scholarship programs to ensure all eager students have the opportunity to learn and grow in the arts. We pride ourselves on presenting performances that have historical and cultural significance. We give back to our community by volunteering performances at community events and retirement homes, sharing uplifting and inspiring material.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our summer musicals of Jukebox Time Machine and Grease: School Editions had 59 participants, these shows together were attended by 1,500 people. This program also supported low income families, with 10 students on scholarships.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.5%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93

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: 4.6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -18.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.5% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.