Princeton Summer Theater Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222325435
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Princeton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6092587062
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $169,134
- Expenses
- $187,037
- Assets
- $39,652
- Liabilities
- $694
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Daniel Rattner (President)
- Geoff Peterson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Daniel Rattner (President)
- Geoff Peterson (Vice President)
- Luke Soucy (Trustee)
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
Princeton Summer Theater's mission is to train the up-and-coming leaders of the theater world and offers students and young professionals experience working in every area of theater production, from performance, to design, to marketing, and everything in between.
What it reported doing in 2025
Princeton Summer Theater is an opportunity for young actors, directors, designers, and theater administrators to become part of a unique artistic community: a fully-fledged summer stock theater operating out of the Hamilton Murray Theater on Princeton Universitys campus. PST offers an unparalleled experience for the emerging artist: complete immersion in the management and creative aspects of a semi-professional theater. From acting in the shows, to working with select professional designers, to managing sales and community outreach, PST provides a truly holistic summer theater experience. Through this intensive work, PST seeks to provide a nurturing and fully supportive environment that inspires artistic ingenuity, fosters a sense of collaboration, and prepares creative minds to enter the professional theater world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.2%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 58.1%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.2% of revenue deployed · 58.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $109K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.