Telltale Theatre Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
581764986
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2017
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2017
Location
Marietta, GA, USA
Phone
7704239517
Rating
35
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Theater

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,090
Expenses
$8,100
Assets
$8,317
Liabilities
$53,307

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • John Schmedes (Executive Director)
  • Don Brainard (President)

People named in this filing

  • John Schmedes (Executive Director)
  • Don Brainard (President)
  • Annie Cook (Treasurer 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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Promote imagination education through original professional plays and innovative acting workshops. TellTale Theatre seeks opportunities to dramatize vital personal and social themes, reach new, disadvantaged and neglected audiences and form effective and innovative artistic partnerships.

What it reported doing in 2017

Children's Theater Programs: Original plays and improv comedy for children, families and special audiences. Have reached nearly one and half million children in over 6,000 performances.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 2
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 1.6%; rating input score 2
  • Program expense ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 1

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -33%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.41; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -21.4% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -15.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 1.6% of revenue deployed · 1.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2009 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.