Strauss Youth Academy for the Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454789054
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Monroe, LA, USA
- Phone
- 3188127922
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $188,466
- Expenses
- $162,898
- Assets
- $181,579
- Liabilities
- $29,485
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TROY COLLETTE (President)
- MEREDITH HAYES (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- TROY COLLETTE (President)
- MEREDITH HAYES (Vice President)
- AMIE KIELWASSER (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 mission of the organization is to provide excellence in theatre arts education for youth, ages 5-18, in Northeast and North-central Louisiana, and to produce high quality theatrical entertainment for the familites of our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Theatrical productions performed for area school audiences (k-12) and for the general public
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 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: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.3%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 58.2%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.3% of revenue deployed · 58.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2012 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.