Rover Dramawerks
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752942982
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Plano, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9728490358
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $266,330
- Expenses
- $218,380
- Assets
- $272,154
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carol M Rice (Executive Director)
- Glynda Welch (President)
- Richard Tuman (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Carol M Rice (Executive Director): $20,064 total reported compensation
- Kim Wickware (Patron Services Manager): $3,150 total reported compensation
- Glynda Welch (President): $1,175 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rover Dramawerks: Presenting treasures, new and rediscovered: theatre "off the beaten path." Rover Dramawerks produces lost or forgotten works of well-known authors, revives excellent scripts that have suffered from a lack of exposure, and discovers unknown gems of the stage.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 (our 25th Anniversary Season), Rover Dramawerks presented six mainstage productions (including a World Premiere) and two festivals in Plano at the Cox Playhouse, which is now our home for live shows. Rover relies on various in-kind donations for support in fulfilling our mission, which helps us provide cultural experiences throughout the area; Rover utilized in-kind donations and contributed goods and services in the amount of $83,495.60 in 2024.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.5%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 65.3%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.5% of revenue deployed · 65.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $143K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.