Saint Paul Central Theater Booster Club

What it reported doing in 2024

The central theatre boosters are the primary source of support for the theatre director emily gill and the theatre program at saint paul central high school. The program embodies the school mission by providing an inclusive, supportive learning environment involving a large number of students while producing high-level theatre performances. Emily gill fosters the development of critical life skills including communication, independence, organization, and responsibility alongside theatre and technical skills. The administration at central strongly supports the arts and works closely with the theatre and music staff and their respective booster organizations throughout the year. The program prioritizes student leadership and involvement of 9th-12th graders for every aspect of the three productions performed every year: a fall musical, winter cabaret, and spring play. Students work with adult mentors and by the end they independently run each show. Over 100 students typically participate in the fall musical as either actors, tech crew, or other important functions. The assistant director, stage managers, pit, and pit conductor were entirely high school students as well. The spring play typically involves 50-70 students depending on the production, with the student directed cabaret involving 30-50 students. The boosters this year have coordinated student events like post-show student thank-you note writing to extend appreciation to volunteers and donors and facilitated theatre student involvement in back-to-school night and school prospective student events. The booster board has successfully increased the volunteer base threefold since the pandemic and expanded fundraising opportunities such as lobby flower sales. This year we successfully grew community sponsorship for programs, expanded fundraising efforts and met our goal of purchasing new microphones, and have made progress in creating sustainable repeatable processes for the theatre program that will continue beyond the current board's tenure.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 97.9%; rating input score 98

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: -66.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 69.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -39.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -71.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings