Form 990-EZ for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$191,630

Total expenses

$202,294

Contributions and grants received

$127,084

Grants paid

— not reported

Program service revenue

$62,825

Membership dues (line 3)

— not reported

Investment income (line 4)

$20

Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)

— not reported

Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)

— not reported

Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)

— not reported

Other revenue (line 8)

$1,701

Total assets, end of year

$34,227

Total liabilities, end of year

$26,237

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$7,990

Program service expenses (Part III)

$180,552

Program services were 89.3% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2022

• During the 2022-2023 programming year, the Pick Up Performance Co. (PUPC) had 2 productions and a performance work in development. The Board and Staff began implementing new multiyear plans to move forward post-pandemic and Co. leadership transition with the loss of founder David Gordon in January 2022. WE (Atmospheric Pressures),A new production with choreographer Emily Coates collaborating with Ain Gordon as director and dramaturg. In WE dance collides with scientific discovery and the stars, restoring the inherent physicality in human understanding of the universe. Through surprising sources19th c. weather journals, galactic 1930s choreography, reimagined ancient astronomical rites, an astronauts 20th c. space walkcosmic dances drift across the centuries, bodying forth the cosmos in love and science. WE had residencies and was performed at Dartmouth College (NH) June 2022, SUNY Purchase (NY) April 2023, Quick Center for the Performing Arts (CT) April 2023, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (NY) June 2023.Underneath the SkinPUPC co-produced with La MaMa ETC John Kellys work Underneath the Skin for an extended run Dec 118, 2022. This was an ambitious undertaking at a time when audiences have shrunk in New York City after the COVID pandemic. The run proved to be a success, with healthy box office sales aided by positive press coverage (including a New York Times feature article) and the performances running multiple weeks that benefitted from positive word of mouth. The production had a multi-disciplinary ensemble cast of 4 based on the life and work of Samuel Steward 1909-1993. Steward was described in the New York Times article as an academic, novelist and a tattoo artist, a friend of Gertrude Steins who had trysts with Rudolph Valentino and Thornton Wilder.Relics and Their HumansAin Gordon's work-in-development Relics and Their Humans had week-long workshop residencies at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University Columbus, OH, and Arizona Arts Live at the University of Arizona Tucson This play focuses on the personal story of his collaborator, composer Josh Quillen, and his family after his father was diagnosed with ALS. This production will premiere at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts University of Illinois Champaign in October 2023.

  Expenses $180,552

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part IV

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990_ez

Tax year

2022

Filed

6 May 2024

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

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