Wilmington Drama League
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510058796
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wilmington, DE, US
- Phone
- 302.764.1172
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $289,843
- Expenses
- $263,652
- Assets
- $2,408,792
- Liabilities
- $5,941
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GENE DZIELAK (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GENE DZIELAK (PRESIDENT)
- MARY BROWNE (TREASURER)
- JENNA COLE (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Wilmington Drama League is a nonprofit performing arts center focused on diversity, inclusion, and youth arts education, providing volunteer opportunities and high-quality theatrical productions for the community. WDL Mission The Wilmington Drama League, a nonprofit performing arts center with a focus on diversity, inclusion and youth arts education, provides volunteers with opportunities to use and develop their talents, serve the community and present high-quality theatrical productions. Annie and Paul_at typewriter. The Wilmington Drama League, a nonprofit performing arts center with a focus on diversity, inclusion and youth arts education, provides volunteers with opportunities to use and develop their talents, serve the community and present high-quality theatrical productions. Annie and Paul_at typewriter press to zoom.
What it reported doing in 2024
The drama league is a resource for community performing arts, it offers creative people an opportunity to use and develop their talents and provides high quality theatrical productions to the community
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.4%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 63.7%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.14; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 58.4% of revenue deployed · 63.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $168K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.