Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133698610
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2036066298
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,840
- Expenses
- $93,716
- Assets
- $240,262
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sally Shen (Executive Director)
- James Nodroff (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Chongren Fan (Artistic Director, Board member)
- Sally Shen (Executive Director)
- James Nodroff (Board 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Yangtze Repertory Theatre is an Obie-winning non-profit theater company that has been producing and presenting theatrical works by, for, and about the AAPI community for over 30 years. Founded in 1992 by Maryknoll Sister Joanna Chan, Yangtze Rep has been a home for artists whose works are not readily seen in the U.S. Since 2017, we have been focusing on supporting artists from the AAPI immigrant community through productions, residencies and commissions, and developing new works that shine a light on stories rarely told.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our AAPI Artist Residency Project YZ celebrated the work of Cohort 4 artists, our senior class, through three distinctly different artistic endeavors. We traveled to 1940s' South Korea in the epic journey of Jesse Jae Hoon's The People's Committees; we followed 50-plus years of love and friendship in modern-day China in Jo Mei's documentary play Fallen Leaves; and finally, we gathered for Julia Gu's solo performance, Journey To The..., following an immigrant actor navigating her life in the United States. The program supported 34 artists, +80% AAPI.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.8%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 57.4%; rating input score 57
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: 6.1%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.56; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.8% of revenue deployed · 57.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 54/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.