Village Stage Productions Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832604229
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Elk Grove, CA, USA
Rating
56
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Theater

Reported finances

Revenue
$70,733
Expenses
$67,796
Assets
$9,923
Liabilities
$630

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kristin Gippetti (President)
  • Stephanie Hart (Vice President)
  • Betsy Longoria (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Kristin Gippetti (President)
  • Stephanie Hart (Vice President)
  • Robyn Hall (Treasurer)

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

Village Stage Productions Inc. conducts theatrical production and arts education programs for the public. The organization produces multiple live theater performances annually including productions open to participants ages 6 and older a teen production and an adult production. Each production includes scheduled rehearsals and public performances. Programs serve youth teens and adults in Elk Grove and the surrounding area. Participants include individuals with varying levels of experience. The organization maintains low participation fees and ticket prices and offers scholarships to reduce financial barriers. Participants are involved in all aspects of production including acting directing stage management and technical theater functions such as lighting sound set construction and backstage operations.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization also provides in-school theater workshops for elementary students. Workshops use structured activities to support skill development in communication collaboration and creative expression. Measurable outcomes include number of students served expanded access to low-cost performing arts opportunities and growth in audience attendance over time. For 2025 over 600 students were served programming reached an additional six classrooms and overall attendance increased. Participants gain practical experience in performance and technical theater and develop skills in collaboration communication and responsibility. Programs result in increased community engagement with the arts and broader access to cultural programming.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 29
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 28.8%; rating input score 29
  • Program expense ratio: 30.1%; rating input score 30

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: 4.2%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 28.8% of revenue deployed · 30.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 29/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.