Starlights Youth Theatre Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271820858
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Amherst, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4135314235
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,144
- Expenses
- $99,304
- Assets
- $40,763
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Clare Bertrand (Board Member, Co-President)
- Sharon Carlson (Board Member, Co-President)
People named in this filing
- Clare Bertrand (Board Member, Co-President)
- Keith Black (Board Member)
- Cynthia Strycharz (Board Member, 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote and carry out the provision of quality education and production of youth theater with the goal of positive development of youth using theater as the tool to build self-esteem, communication skills and imagination.
What it reported doing in 2024
Starlight's Youth Theatre focuses on youth theater education and serves over 100 young actors from over 32 communities throughout western Massachusetts. 1,150 people attend the performances put on by the students. Starlight's Youth Theatre has a commitment to using performance to support the development of each young person. Independent contractors act as teachers, directors and support. Administrative costs cover insurance, printing and fees. Program and production costs include show management. Starlight is providing a trip to NYC for a full Broadway experience. Grants are made to graduating seniors and a new non-profit area theater collective PAEC.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.1%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.8%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 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: 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.