Rosie's Theater Kids Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331194964
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6464342745
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,615,783
- Expenses
- $2,849,633
- Assets
- $6,715,675
- Liabilities
- $142,002
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROSIE O'DONNELL (CHAIR & PRESIDENT)
- MATTHEW NACLERIO (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LORI KLINGER (EXECUTIVE & ARTISTIC DIREC): $191,408 total reported compensation
- LISA DANSER (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR): $134,832 total reported compensation
- STEVEN JAMAIL (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & MUSIC): $128,713 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rosie's theater kids, inc. ("rtkids") is a not-for-profit organization established in 2008 to provide musical theater training and a professional theater experience to underprivileged New York city public school children. Rtk is dedicated to enriching the lives of children through the arts, and does so through several programs. Its goal is to inspire excellence, motivate learning, uplift the human spirit, and instill a lifelong appreciation for the arts.
What it reported doing in 2025
Higher education support: acte ii high school students participate in the arts plus initiative, which supports students' academic success through structured tutoring, formalized sat preparation provided by atlas test prep, and intensive college admissions counseling. Year after year, 100% of our students graduate from high school (compared to the city's rate of 80%) and 95% of our students in grades 9-12 maintain at least a 3.2 gpa. 100% of our students are accepted into college or higher education, and many have received full or significant scholarships at noted institutions.sam scholarship in 2014, rtkids established the scholastic and artistic merit (sam) scholarship, which provides one or two acte ii seniors each year with a scholarship to cover gaps in student aid ($1.8m awarded to date). The sam scholarship is awarded to outstanding students selected by the rtkids executive team and board members. Recipients are students who have consistently demonstrated excellence within rtkids' programs.students complete a rigorous application process in march of their senior year. Selection is based on academic achievement, artistic ability, comportment, commitment, and financial need.the sam scholarship is designed to assist students with "gap funding," meaning the remaining balance needed after a student's financial aid award has been applied toward the cost of higher education. Scholarship funds may be used for tuition, room and board, books, travel, and other necessary expenses related to college attendance, typically during the academic year from august through may.the sam scholarship is for the benefit of the student and the student alone. All funds must be used only to further the student's educational goals and achievements.students must submit check requests in a timely manner.parent expectationsstudents and parents must complete and submit the fafsa. Parents are responsible for the expected family contribution, as determined by fafsa.student expectationsscholarship recipients must be enrolled full time in pursuit of higher education and must maintain a minimum gpa of 2.8.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.4%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 67.4%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96.2%; rating input score 96; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.36; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.4% of revenue deployed · 67.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 26 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $191K · 32 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.