Squallis Puppeteers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421552694
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Phone
- 5023139942
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,789
- Expenses
- $80,713
- Assets
- $103,427
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nora Christensen (Executive Director)
- Shawn Hennessey (Board member/Past Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Nora Christensen (Executive Director)
- Shawn Hennessey (Board member/Past Executive Director)
- Sonya Linser (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To use puppetry to communicate and educate.
What it reported doing in 2024
Arts Education: Squallis Puppeteers teaches a variety of workshops and residencies to children of all ages in the community. We teach children how to use everyday materials to create characters and then teach them how to communicate their own stories. Approximately 2500 children benefited from our workshops.
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
MIXED - 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: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.3%; rating input score 30
- Program expense ratio: 36.3%; rating input score 36
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 30.3% of revenue deployed · 36.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.