Santa Paula Theater Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770076274
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Santa Paula, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8055254645
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $231,798
- Expenses
- $184,461
- Assets
- $324,417
- Liabilities
- $100
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIXEO FLORES (President)
- VICTORIA McGEE (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- EMILY DODI (Director)
- HEIDI JUAREZ (Director)
- LISA McKINLEY MIRABELLI (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Santa Paula Theater Center provides a first class local theater experience to Ventura County. We showcase original one-acts each year, producing works by Ventura County playwrights, as well as lessor known works. The space allows emerging actors and other theater artists to develop their talents. We also host acting classes for youth and adults to involve the community and encourage new talent, as well as provide training in the technical aspects of lighting, sound, set design and construction.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Santa Paula Theater Center encourages and promotes public awareness and appreciation of dramatic arts for the local community.
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.4%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- 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: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.4%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.76; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.4% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $152K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.