Poetry by the Sea Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873798430
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Hainesport, NJ, USA
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Council/Agency
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,123
- Expenses
- $48,102
- Assets
- $6,276
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anna Evans (Director President and Treasurer)
- Linda Stern (Director and Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Anna Evans (Director President and Treasurer)
- Linda Stern (Director and Vice President)
- Allison Joseph (Director and 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
Charitable educational: promoting involvement in poetry
What it reported doing in 2025
Conference: a 4-day in person event at which 50-60 attendees engage in workshops seminars attend panel discussions and readings by world-class poets. This provides a national forum to discuss major trends in contemporary poetry especially the roles of craft structure narrative lyricism and voice.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 33.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.6% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.