Worcester Shakespeare Company Ltd

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 272220101
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2012–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location: Housatonic, MA, USA
Phone: 4132320003
Rating: 64
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Theater

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $5,000
Expenses: $4,109
Assets: $130,499
Liabilities: $3,725

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

MELVIN COBB JR (President)

People named in this filing

MELVIN COBB JR (President)
DUANE BOUTTE (Treasurer)
CHRISTOPHER GATES (CLERK)

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

Shakespeare for education and community

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization performs season shakespeare plays for the local community, particularly low income community members. Education and training of student actors and designers.

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 54
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 71
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 50.4%; rating input score 50
Program expense ratio: 61.3%; rating input score 61

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 17.8%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 31.76; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -17.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 50.4% of revenue deployed · 61.3% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
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 50/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.