Sayreville Main Street Players Ltd

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
223425392
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Helmetta, NJ, USA
Phone
7322360184
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Theater

Reported finances

Revenue
$169,794
Expenses
$174,845
Assets
$18,228
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Cindy Guerra (President)

People named in this filing

  • Cindy Guerra (President)
  • Thomas Fritzen (Artistic Director)
  • Kevin Gunther (SecretaryTreasurer)

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

We are a community theatre producing high quality broadway style plays and musicals Kidworks shows for youngsters interactiveimmersive mystery theatre and theatre arts programs featuring young performers 5 to 18 years old

What it reported doing in 2024

Main Street Performing Arts Academy - A theatre performing arts program for young performers ages 4 to 17 broken into Junior performers 4-10 and Senior Performers 11-17 The Main Street Academy is a 10 week program dedicated to developing the next generation of theatre artists both on stage and behind the scenes Every week the students get a half hour workshop on some aspect of theatrical production whether its vocal health audition technique lighting and design Besides learning their material for the show the students are also involved in creating some of the props and sets for the show Whether your children aspire to become professional entertainers actors singers dancers technical crew or just want to experience the joy of theatre we welcome them to be part of our Main Street community

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 75% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 program spending 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: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55.7%; rating input score 56
  • Program expense ratio: 54.1%; rating input score 54

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 33.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 55.7% of revenue deployed · 54.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $95K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.