PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER Dba STAGES Youth Theater
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812625670
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Portland, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2076993330
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $193,180
- Expenses
- $190,259
- Assets
- $26,942
- Liabilities
- $49,112
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Deanna Etienne (Board President)
- Hollye Seddon (Co-Founder and Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Deanna Etienne (Board President)
- Hollye Seddon (Co-Founder and Board Vice President)
- Linda Faber-Shields (Board 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Portland Youth Theater's primary exempt purpose is to unlock self-discovery in young people through the transformative power of theater. Our programs reach hundreds of kids each week in our venue and in schools throughout our community, providing a safe, nurturing and happy environment in which kids can create theater while learning about themselves and the world around them.
What it reported doing in 2024
PRIVATE MUSIC INSTRUCTION: After a pilot test in 2022-2023, STAGES rolled out a Private Music Instruction studio to deliver high-quality piano and voice instruction to young people ages 7-17 in 2024. Individual music instruction at STAGES was designed with the same foundation of our other educational programs - meeting kids where they are at with a non-competitive instruction model that balances quality music instruction with a low-pressure, non-recital-based format, providing our best possible scenario for developing skills and cultivating a life-long appreciation and love of music.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 77.8%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.82; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.6% of revenue deployed · 77.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $148K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.