Stage Managers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133426203
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3147615127
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Business and Industry
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,655
- Expenses
- $46,032
- Assets
- $23,010
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
People named in this filing
- ADRIENNE WELLS (CHAIR)
- AMANDA SPOONER (VICE CHAIR)
- Brian Rangell (RECORDING SECRETARY)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Stage Managers' Association of the United States (SMA) is the only professional organization for working Stage Managers across the United States. Our mission is to create and maintain a strong community of Stage Managers by: Protecting and promoting the interests of professional Stage Managers; Serving as a resource and networking hub for the dissemination and advancement of ideas and developments in the craft of stage management; Recognizing and promoting the recognition of professional Stage Managers at all career levels; and Educating and advising those interested in the art and techniques of stage management.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our Website hosts many resources for our 1200+ members to access as well as some resources that available to the general public, students, and researchers. Our Representatives were able to attend Live Design Institute Conference, the US Institute of Technical Theatre and Southeast Theatre Conference presenting a number of panels and providing face to face information on the organization. The annual Del Hughes awards were presented in New York City as well as virtually for our entire membership base. We continued our Partnership with the popular Broadway Stage Management Symposium and donated to the Cody Renard Richard Scholarship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.