Spokane Entertainers Guild
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452936184
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5094997165
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $163,832
- Expenses
- $40,593
- Assets
- $220,099
- Liabilities
- $8,322
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Kimberly Danker (Board Marketing Chair)
- Rachel Smith (Board Treasurer)
- David Germany (Board Chair)
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
Mission Statement: The Spokane Entertainers Guild exists to inspire and cultivate a thriving community of performing artists and creative talent in Spokane and its surrounding areas. Through collaboration education and advocacy the Guild seeks to empower artists enrich cultural vitality and create transformative experiences that engage and connect audiences. Vision Statement: To become the premier organization fostering a vibrant and inclusive arts community where creativity flourishes performers achieve their full potential and the performing arts are celebrated as essential to the cultural fabric of the region.
What it reported doing in 2025
By providing historically accurate depictions of notable people throughout history as well as magical beings our organization offers a fun and educational experience that appeals to a wide variety of people. By bringing the community together we can foster a sense of connection and belonging while also promoting cultural awareness and appreciation. We are dedicated to celebrating and preserving the traditions and stories of the past while also making them accessible and enjoyable for people of all ages and backgrounds. The Faire brought in 19,000 community members in 2025 to learn about the renaissance era to include combat dancing music and general knowledge of the timeperiod. The Faire also hosts many vendors who sell and demonstrate the goods of the era.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8.9%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 35.7%; rating input score 36
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 69%; rating input score 69; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 75.2%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.42; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 117.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 83.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 8.9% of revenue deployed · 35.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.