Rockville Little Theatre Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237067277
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Rockville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2402429735
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,840
- Expenses
- $86,459
- Assets
- $163,199
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeffrey McDermott (President)
- Laura Andruski (Vice President - Administration)
- Steven Howlett (Vice President - Development)
People named in this filing
- Jeffrey McDermott (President)
- Laura Andruski (Vice President - Administration)
- Steven Howlett (Vice President - Development)
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
Providing affordable community theatre productions and theatrical arts opportunities for the public
What it reported doing in 2025
Rockville Little Theatre is the oldest continuously operating live theatre organization in the Rockville area. RLT provides high-quality theatrical performances at affordable prices and strives to entertain, enlighten, and educate audiences through live community theatre. During FY2026, RLT produced multiple theatrical productions, served thousands of audience members, and provided opportunities for volunteers to participate as actors, directors, stage managers, designers, technicians, and other production personnel. Through its productions and educational activities, RLT promotes participation in the performing arts and enriches the cultural life of the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.3%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 99.6%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.9%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.89; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.3% of revenue deployed · 99.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $86K 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: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.