Royal River Community Players
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814473933
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Yarmouth, ME, USA
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $303,686
- Expenses
- $263,121
- Assets
- $306,384
- Liabilities
- $4,472
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELINA ROBERTS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN (EXECUTIVE DI): $70,817 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create multi-generational educational opportunities and encourage creative expression by providing performing arts experiences and creating theatrical productions for all ages.
What it reported doing in 2025
The royal river community players (rrcp) are committed to fostering multi- generational performing arts experiences that unite individuals from communities in greater portland and beyond. Through our classes and theatrical productions, we offer educational opportunities, storytelling, collaboration, and creative expression for people of all ages, from young children to seniors. In 2025, we continued to produce multi-generational shows. This work not only provides free opportunities for people to participate in the performing arts but also brings theater to our community and cultivates the next generation of theater patrons. Last year, we staged five main stage productions, cast 111 roles, and welcomed families from 78 different communities. We also expanded our educational programs, working with 157 students aged 5 to 85 across our popular day, after-school, and summer programs. In addition, we launched the accessible stages collaborative, partnering with various institutions to make our community more inclusive for actors of all abilities and skill levels. The collaborative developed a curriculum and delivered free professional development for local theaters and educators to learn how to make their programs more inviting and inclusive for actors with and without disabilities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 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: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.2%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 60.2%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: $222.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 13.4%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.2% of revenue deployed · 60.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $158K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 52/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.