River City Theatre Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680205528
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9162034111
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,726
- Expenses
- $165,938
- Assets
- $145,847
- Liabilities
- $2,329
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Iniguez (President)
- Melanie Webb (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Chandra Rosales (Secretary)
- Stacy Lewis (Director)
- John Iniguez (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
Theater arts education for children.
What it reported doing in 2025
The 2025/2026 season of the River City Theatre Company (RCTC) represented its 35th season. The season was ambitious with two musical theatre productions performed during the season. In Fall 2025 the company performed Cinderella. In spring 2026, RCTC performed Hello, Dolly! RCTC continues to maintain a downturn in registered paying cast members, leading to an operating loss in operations. This continued reduction in registered paying cast members has resulted in a material negative effect on the operational revenue of the RCTC. However, during the fiscal year, RCTC received generous individual donations during the annual Big Day of Giving fundraiser event in May 2026 totaling over $11,000. This is several thousand dollars less than received in 2025 for this event. For the upcoming fiscal year, RCTC will be increasing its registration fees to address the continued operating losses in its operations. However, the RCTC Board of Directors has decided to hold off in making painful cuts in its operational expenses.River City Theatre Company (RCTC) provides theatre arts education for youth in school grades 1st thru 12th, in the four-county Sacramento metropolitan area by staging two or more full-length musical theatre productions each performing season, with youth as cast members. Cast members receive training and experience in singing, dancing and acting on stage from paid professional artistic staff and perform in front of a paying audience. All youth who register for the production are not turned away: no audition is required, and all who register are in the show as ensemble regardless of experience. However, for the leading and supporting roles an audition is required.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
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: -22.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $146K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.