Theatre Bam
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363910452
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Evanston, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8478666385
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $31,347
- Expenses
- $30,911
- Assets
- $23,377
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NINA LYNN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT FERGUSON (SECRETARY): $13,566 total reported compensation
- NINA LYNN (PRESIDENT): $11,401 total reported compensation
- GEORGE KEATING (TREASURER): $2,680 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Theatre productions for children
What it reported doing in 2025
SEE SCHEDULE - PART III #a - Schoolhouse Rock Live!
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.8%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 55.6%; rating input score 56
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.8% of revenue deployed · 55.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $14K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 8 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.