Mudlark Theater Company

Analysis

Mudlark Theater Company is a registered charity in United States, based in Evanston, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Mudlark Theater Company reported income of $557k and spending of $711k, spending 128% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $731k to $557k (-24%), an average of -6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Mudlark Theater Company sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nancy Lee & Perry R Bass Performance Hall Capital Endow TR ($557k), Audacity Performing Arts Project Inc ($557k) and Gujarati Society of Central Florida Inc ($556k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 33% and program service revenue 67% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $488k. At year end it held assets of $724k against liabilities of $567k, net assets of $157k. It reported 61 employees.