Schaumburg On Stage
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364834837
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Schaumburg, IL, US
- Phone
- 847-278-7185
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $340,364
- Expenses
- $340,031
- Assets
- $333,715
- Liabilities
- $310,335
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARY ALICE BENOIT (EXECUTIVE DI)
- BRIAN MCGUIRE (SECRETARY)
- MARY MILLER (FINANCE DIRE)
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
To provide quality theater experiences and education to children, young adults and developing artists.
What it reported doing in 2025
The goal of schaumburg on stage (sos) is to educate youths and young adults in dance, acting, and singing through workshops, classes, camps, and productions. In january 2025, sos produced and performed a production of les miserable: teen edition at the al larson center for the performing arts. Rehearsals for this production were held in 2024. In march 2025, point2productions (p2p), held auditions and started rehearsals for a production of jesus christ superstar. In april 2025, p2p continued rehearsals for jesus christ superstar; held auditions and started rehearsals for a production of spring awakening. In may 2025, p2p held opening performances of jesus christ superstar at the lodge performing arts center; rehearsals continued to produce spring awakening. In june 2025, p2p held final performances for jesus christ superstar at the lodge performing arts center, and continued rehearsals to produce spring awakening. Sos began a five-week teen workshop intensive of hadestown for ages 14-18yrs and began a six-week musical theater summer camp of lion king jr. For ages 8-14yrs. In july 2025, the sos musical theater summer camp performed lion king jr., and the teen workshop intensive held opening performances of hadestown at the lodge performing arts center. P2p held opening performances of spring awakening at the lodge performing arts center; held auditions and started rehearsals for a production of next to normal. In august 2025, the sos teen workshop intensive held closing performances of hadestown at the lodge performing arts center. P2p continued rehearsals to produce next to normal. In september 2025, p2p held performances of the next to normal production at the lodge performing arts center. In october 2025, sos held auditions and began rehearsals to produce all shook up to be performed in 2025. In november 2025, sos rehearsals continued to produce all shook up. In december 2025, sos rehearsal continued to produce all shook up. P2p began rehearsals for of the hunchback of notre dame as a collaborative concert performance with the elgin symphony orchestra at the hemmens cultural center.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- 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: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.93; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $303K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.