San Diego Theatre Critics Circle
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450524834
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Vista, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7605192952
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $351
- Expenses
- $2,750
- Assets
- $27,008
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ErinMarie Reiter (President)
- Alejandra Enciso (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- ErinMarie Reiter (President)
- Alejandra Enciso (Vice President)
- Cassiopeia Guthrie (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to reviewing and honoring the top achievements in San Diego professional theater. The organization is made up of 9 professional theater critics who write about theater throughout the year, then vote to choose the top achievements. Each February, a ceremony is held to honor the top performances, direction, design and productions and cash awards totaling $2750 or are given in the categories of achievements by a small theater and youth critics. The event draws 400 people. We give away 30 percent of all tickets free to nominees, youth writers and volunteers. The cost to present the ceremony and pay for award plaques and scholarships is raised through a 50-50 mix of donations and ticket sales. The board and all members are volunteers. In addition to the awards ceremony, our members teach about theater criticism in high schools and judge theater competitions and have a newsletter and podcast.
What it reported doing in 2024
Each February nominations are selected in up to 25 categories of theatrical excellence and an awards program in San Diego. Nearly 400 people attend the open-to-all event. All nominated artists receive free tickets, which are underwritten by donors and ticket sales. The awards are coveted by the local artists because it helps them get other work and theater companies use the awards as a way to establish a pattern of excellence when applying for grants. This year we awarded a $600 scholarship to the winners of our Young Critics writing competition for high school and college age students. We also awarded a $1,000 grant to the winner of the most outstanding achievement by a small theater (under 99 seats).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: -683.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.82; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.