Stray Cat Theatre
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270037096
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4802271766
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $132,900
- Expenses
- $150,188
- Assets
- $2,579
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Will Hightower (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Ron May (Producing Artistic Director/Board Member)
- Michael Peck (Production Manager)
- Amanda Keegan (Production Stage Manager)
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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Decidedly off the beaten path, Stray Cat is indie theatre at its best: quirky, edgy and irreverent. Stray Cat Theatre scratches the Valley's itch for a visceral, provocative theatre experience for culture-savvy cats who crave something beyond the standard kitty chow. Founded in 2002, Stray Cat is considered the Valley's leading alternative theatre. Stray Cat's stage productions are distinct from those of other theatre companies across the Valley. Consistent with our mission, Stray Cat is committed to: 1. Aggressively seeking out and showcasing the most vital contemporary material. 2. Cultivating the next generation of theatre artists in the Valley. 3. Constantly exploring theatrical possibility -- what the live theatre is uniquely capable of. 4. Striving to produce or develop original, unpublished work. 5. Fostering a creative incubator -- a free-radical environment dedicated to risk-taking where artists can find a home to do consistently fascinating things.
What it reported doing in 2017
For seven of the past eleven seasons, Stray Cat has won the AriZoni Award for either Best Overall Production or Best Overall Musical, as well as numerous awards for direction, acting and technical achievement. Phoenix New Times named Stray Cat "Best Community Theatre" for four years, lauded Ron May as "Best Theatre Director" and Stray Cat as "Best Reason to go to the Theatre all Season Long in 2015," and named our production of Stupid F***ing Bird, an update of Chekhov's The Seagull, Best Non-Equity Play in 2016. The Arizona Republic in 2016 named Ron May Director of the Year, in 2015 called our production of Year of the Rooster the "best show of the season" and hailed Eric Beeck, our resident scenic designer, for "best scenic design." The newspaper named Stray Cat "Best Alternative Theatre" numerous times. SCT has been profiled nationally in BackStage and Variety magazines as a national champion of New Works. Of 62 productions, 60 have been Arizona premieres. Artistic Director Ron May was recently named a finalist for the Zelda Fichandler Award by SDC and was also nominated for a Governor's Arts Award.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
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: -13%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd 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 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2017
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.