Signature Productions

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943098034
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Phone
7025255568
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$340,848
Expenses
$448,891
Assets
$91,922
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ariel Johnson (President)
  • Lance Earl (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Alec TerBerg (Director): $3,500 total reported compensation
  • Kelly Nelson (Treasurer): $3,000 total reported compensation
  • Shauna Oblad (Secretary): $1,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide a venue for young performers, designers and technicians to grow and develop their natural abilities while veteran performers, designers and technicians teach and inspire!

What it reported doing in 2024

Signature Productions presents several musicals and theatrical productions each year, providing high-quality entertainment while creating meaningful opportunities for community involvement in the performing arts. We opened our 20242025 season in the fall of 2024 with Little Shop of Horrors. This production involved more than 40 volunteers, including both onstage and backstage crew members, and featured 20 non-professional performers who were given the opportunity to grow their skills as actors, dancers, and singers. In December 2024, we co-produced A Christmas Carol, which engaged approximately 60 volunteers both on and off stage. We concluded our season in April 2025 with Crazy for You, once again utilizing the talents of nearly 60 volunteers in all areas of production. To ensure accessibility for our community, we offer reduced ticket pricing for military personnel, first responders, students, and seniors, helping make live theatre more affordable despite rising venue rental costs. We also partnered with our local community college to provide a special performance with American Sign Language interpretation, expanding access for deaf and hard-of-hearing patrons. In support of arts education, we make our set pieces, props, and costume inventory available to local schools to enhance their own student productions and strengthen theatre opportunities for young performers. Our new season began in the fall of 2025 with the musical Little Women, continuing our commitment to artistic excellence, community engagement, and accessible live theatre.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - 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: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
  • 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -31.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $392K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $4K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.