Totals
- Total revenue
- $94,648
- Total expenses
- $270,621
- Contributions and grants received
- $22,985
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $8,500
- Investment income
- $62,638
- Other revenue
- $525
- Total assets, end of year
- $749,659
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $550
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $749,109
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $187,294
- Management and general expenses
- $45,042
- Fundraising expenses
- $38,285
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $187,294
Program services were 69.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$10,000
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$12,985
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2a · Program service revenue: Admissions
total $8,500 · related or exempt $8,500
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3 · Investment income
total $21,319 · excluded $21,319
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $41,319
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $41,319
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $41,319 · excluded $41,319
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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11a · Other revenue: Other Income
total $525 · related or exempt $525
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11e · Other revenue, total
$525
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $100,000 · program services $73,000 · management and general $13,500 · fundraising $13,500
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $15,000 · program services $10,950 · management and general $2,025 · fundraising $2,025
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $9,466 · program services $6,910 · management and general $1,278 · fundraising $1,278
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $10,459 · program services $7,635 · management and general $1,412 · fundraising $1,412
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $7,400 · management and general $7,400
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $4,440 · management and general $4,440
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11g · Fees: other
total $39,360 · program services $22,555 · management and general $1,205 · fundraising $15,600
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13 · Office expenses
total $27,032 · program services $21,864 · management and general $5,168
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14 · Information technology
total $1,455 · program services $212 · management and general $1,243
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16 · Occupancy
total $32,553 · program services $23,763 · management and general $4,395 · fundraising $4,395
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17 · Travel
total $874 · management and general $874
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $555 · program services $405 · management and general $75 · fundraising $75
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23 · Insurance
total $2,027 · management and general $2,027
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24a · Other expenses: Artists Fees
total $20,000 · program services $20,000
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $142,767 · end of year $60,413
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $130,698
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $337
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $555
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $665,541 · end of year $688,146
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $1,100 · end of year $1,100
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $323 · end of year $550
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $809,977 · end of year $149,109
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $130,698 · end of year $600,000
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
Capital Fringe was founded in 2005 with a mission to celebrate cultural democracy and access to art and artistic expression for all. By embracing diversity and a spirit of independence, we create earning opportunities for individual artists.
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In 2025, Capital Fringe made the difficult decision to cease production of the annual Capital/DC Fringe Festival after two decades. This decision followed years of effort to build and sustain stable infrastructure for large-scale open-access live performance amid the steady loss of affordable and proximate venues across Washington, DC. Fringe festivals require a dense cluster of spaces capable of supporting more than one hundred productions annually; while Capital Fringe achieved this for a time in Downtown DC at Fort Fringe and later across multiple neighborhoods including H Street NE/Trinidad, Southwest DC, Georgetown, and Downtown DC, the long-term erosion of venue availability and rising costs made continuation unsustainable. Over twenty years, Capital Fringe activated 158 venues, nearly two thirds of which no longer exist. While the festival has concluded, Capital Fringe continues its mission through new program models, including the launch of the Ed Tyler Fringe Touring Fund and through fiscal sponsorship of independent artists and producers across the DMV. These programs extend Capital Fringes commitment to open access, experimentation, and artist support beyond a single annual event and into sustainable, future-facing forms.
Expenses $187,294 · Revenue $8,500
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Julianne Brienza
PresidentSecretary
- Total calculated
- $108,156
- From this org
- $100,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,156
- Hours/week
- 60
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Anthony Gittens
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Farrell Parker
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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David Gorodetski
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 17 February 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.0
- Source object
- 202640499349301409
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