Poway Performing Arts Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203541858
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Poway, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8586798085
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $150,136
- Expenses
- $137,641
- Assets
- $122,724
- Liabilities
- $37,549
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Dartt (President)
- Steve Murdock (Vice President)
- Linda England (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- David Dartt (President)
- Steve Murdock (Vice President)
- Linda England (Vice 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
To create theatrical experiences of the highest standards within the community theater environment; to produce/present works ensuring diverse/balanced programming; to provide an environment for artist and community growth/education; to expand, engage, and entertain our audiences
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -31.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2014 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.