Winnetka Theater Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363882396
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Des Plaines, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8472207268
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,042
- Expenses
- $197,218
- Assets
- $24,154
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARTHA SHUFORD (PRESIDENT)
- TRAVIS MONROE (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RAY MINDAS (SECRETARY)
- MARTHA SHUFORD (PRESIDENT)
- TRAVIS MONROE (VICE-PRESIDENT)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Big Noise Theatre promotes the arts in and around the Des Plaines area by providing an opportunity for all individuals to participate in, learn from, and enjoy the performing arts. We seek to expand and surpass the expectations of our performers, collaborators, and audiences. BNT continues to embrace moral responsibility by using our platform to expand social awareness.
What it reported doing in 2024
Children's theater programming - little noise theatre, our childrens theater program, where children in grades 1-8 learn all about theater from industry professionals then perform a show for their friends and family. This year we split them into two groups, grades 1-4 and grades 4-8. The older group put on the musical elf in november of 2024. In february of 2025 101 dalmations was performed by the group of children in grades 1-4. In spring of 2025, the 4-8th grade students performed the musical willy wonka.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $186K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.