Players Guild of Dearborn
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 386090808
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dearborn, MI, United States
- Phone
- (313) 561-TKTS
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $250,329
- Expenses
- $219,698
- Assets
- $1,522,283
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Moseley (President)
- Carissa Lokken (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Michael Moseley (President)
- Patti Martin (Secretary)
- John Sczomak (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve and foster a community interest in drama in all its forms; discover talent in play writing, play producing, staging and lighting, scenery and costume designing, and in acting and directing through group endeavor in actual presentation of plays. It is the nature of what we do at the Guild to put words into actions. In this particular case, it is our words of support and love for our friends who are minorities, who are LBGTQIA+ and for everyone else in our community that is marginalized or lives in fear. Our actions will be that we will do whatever we can to make everyone feel welcomed, safe, and respected, from the minute they walk in our doors or whenever they interact with us outside of the Guild. We are going to take this a step further. Our Board of Governors often has special committees who are generally charged with a task that falls outside the responsibilities of...
What it reported doing in 2024
D: The nature of other program services in total amount to $150,452 including: Casting Choreography Costumes Janitorial Lights & Sound Makeup Credit Card Fees Production Programs Properties Marketing & Publicity Stage construction Intermission Capital Expenditures Maintenance and Repairs & Utilities as well as mortgage interest.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 79% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.8%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.2%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.93; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 87.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 14 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $220K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.