The Wayward Artist Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821980215
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9497330220
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,018
- Expenses
- $76,459
- Assets
- $12,798
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Craig Tyrl (President)
- Steven Reyes (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Craig Tyrl (President)
- Keenah Armitage (Director)
- Susan Hallman (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to be the artistic home for the wayward artist - the lost, the naked, the vulnerable. To produce wayward theatre of the highest quality works that are new, works with an edge, and works reimagined. To try our best to transform a wayward world. We are a passionate collective of artists with a dream to create a home for our fellow wayward souls. Many of us are educators by day and storytellers by night. We believe firmly in the power of paying it forward to those artists at the beginning of their careers. At the same time, we seek to create professional quality productions for the community of Santa Ana and the residents of Orange County.
What it reported doing in 2025
To be the artist home for the Wayward Artist - the lost, naked, the vulnerable. To produce Wayward theater of the highest quality--works that are new, works with an edge, works reimagined. To transform a wayward world.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
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: 4.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.2% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $64K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.