Stage And Screen Innovations

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473124120
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
3235063984
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,300
Expenses
$1,300
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jeffrey Mehain (President)

People named in this filing

  • Jeffrey Mehain (President)
  • Diamond Monique Washington (Artistic Director)

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

Stage And Screen Innovations works to expand modes of artistic expression, to enhance culture, promote diversity of thought, and to empower original creators to reach the public. We do this primarily through the Virtual Theatrical program which explores new modes of storytelling as technology advances, and the Producing Unique New Creators (PUNC) program, for skills development. These are hands-on programs aimed at under-served communities and groups of aspiring talents normally overlooked by the system.

What it reported doing in 2025

Virtual Theatrical (VT) Program - this is a new creator program that bridges the gap between traditional performance and storytelling, and modern, evolving technology. The VT program preserves the importance of theater and narrative expression, while it explores and encourages the expansion of these vital cultural arts into the environment of the new millennium. The VT program is aimed at identifying and empowering emerging talent from underrepresented groups and communities, whose voices are most often passed over, or who otherwise have no access to such experiences. VT has several projects at various stages of development which are designed to create new modes of expression among live audiences, and for wider media expression. VT has the support of established writers and directors who wish to mentor the next generation of voices, and who value the diversity of thought that original, human-centered storytelling can foster across society. At this time VT is entirely volunteer supported. In 2025, VT has successfully developed three projects, all ready for production in 2026. Development is a demanding process of script development and technical design. In 2026, the VT program will be able to expand into production and performance.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • 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: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.