Stars Theater Co

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
752655992
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Hurst, TX, USA
Phone
8179251430
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Student Services, Organizations of Students

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$57,940
Expenses
$73,088
Assets
$104,235
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Melinda Smith (President)
  • Lu Anne Tyson (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Melinda Smith (President)
  • Chris Brewer (Director)
  • Robin Dettmer (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

Educational theater company for young people ages 8 thru 19. STARS Theater Company provides education, training, and experience in theater arts to young people ages 8 thru 19 in Tarrant County and the surrounding area.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Other Program Expenses include 2 other youth productions and Summer Camp. The teen performances of Disney's FROZEN JR, which extended from fall 2024-January 2025. The expenses also included the Spring Musical, PIRATES 2 THE HIDDEN TREASURE, for ages 8-12. PIRATES 2, served 14 students ages 8-12 who studied acting, singing, and dancing preparing for 3 performances in May. Productions were performed for the general public. The Summer Camp, ADVENTURES IN THE LAND OF OZ, was a one week day camp for ages 7-12. Students spent a week studying acting, singing & dancing while rehearsing for a public performance on the final day

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65.1%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 51.6%; rating input score 52

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -26.1%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.43; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 55.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 65.1% of revenue deployed · 51.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.