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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by UPTOWN PLAYERS INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$809,655
Total expenses
$868,452
Contributions and grants received
$408,847
Grants paid
$1,763
Program service revenue
$342,693
Investment income
$2,021
Other revenue
$56,094
Total assets, end of year
$1,406,728
Total liabilities, end of year
$990,660
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$416,068
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$714,697
Management and general expenses
$153,076
Fundraising expenses
$679
Program service expenses (Part III)
$714,697

Program services were 82.3% 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.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $4,667

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $58,845

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $345,335

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $4,667

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Ticket Sales

    total $334,568 · related or exempt $334,568

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Playbill Sponsorship

    total $8,125 · related or exempt $8,125

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $2,021 · excluded $2,021

  • 6a · Gross rents

    personal property $9,650

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    personal property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    personal property $9,650

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $9,650 · related or exempt $9,650

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $28,330

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $4,667

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $4,667

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $23,663 · excluded $23,663

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $32,862

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $10,081

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $22,781 · excluded $22,781

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $1,763 · program services $1,763

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $118,555 · program services $83,310 · management and general $35,245

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $115,020 · program services $115,020

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $3,679 · program services $3,679

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $15,906 · program services $15,906

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $19,871 · program services $19,871

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $19,126 · management and general $19,126

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $89,519 · program services $89,519

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $2,191 · management and general $1,512 · fundraising $679

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $3,680 · management and general $3,680

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $32,302 · program services $32,302

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $104,741 · program services $85,382 · management and general $19,359

  • 17 · Travel

    total $17,314 · program services $17,314

  • 20 · Interest

    total $47,094 · program services $8,132 · management and general $38,962

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $49,742 · program services $16,246 · management and general $33,496

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $6,043 · program services $6,043

  • 24a · Other expenses: Supplies - sets & props

    total $34,124 · program services $34,124

  • 24b · Other expenses: Labor - Non-equity cast

    total $27,225 · program services $27,225

  • 24c · Other expenses: Ticketing fees

    total $17,788 · program services $17,788

  • 24d · Other expenses: Labor - Orchestra

    total $13,230 · program services $13,230

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $129,539 · program services $127,843 · management and general $1,696

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $384,841 · end of year $311,192

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $1,118

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $6,275 · end of year $6,275

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $1,564,005

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $477,945

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,108,817 · end of year $1,086,060

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $2,105 · end of year $2,083

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $8,952 · end of year $293

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $701,937 · end of year $690,378

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $316,284 · end of year $299,989

  • 29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

    beginning of year $250,607 · end of year $191,810

  • 30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

    beginning of year $224,258 · end of year $224,258

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The mission of Uptown Players is to present professional theater that meets a rising demand in the community for audiences to see their life experiences represented on stage. We offer diverse productions with contemporary and alternative lifestyle themes that explore complex and varied situations such as relationships, family, prejudice, and values. We present plays and musicals that challenge our audiences artistically, build cultural bridges, and strive to create greater positive public awareness and acceptance through the performing arts. There is no other theater group with this unique mission in the Dallas area.

  • Uptown Players offers equity membership candidacy (EMC) program weeks for local artists and stage managers desiring enough credit to join Actors Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers. Due to the pandemic and global health crisis, Uptown Players pivoted to filming productions and streaming archival video of past productions to patrons' homes. As a result, Uptown Players provided work for 16 professional (union) actors, non-union actors, and 3 stage managers in a COVID safe film environment. During 2023, Uptown Players produced five live productions: Silver Foxes, Broadway Our Way 2022, Cruel Intentions: The 90's Musical, Chicken & Biscuits, and Jada Bells - A Holiday Extravaganza. Uptown Players also provided free online content during the pandemic, including hosting an hour long episode of Stars in the House, a national daily webcast featuring Broadway performers and regional theater work around the country. The theater has won over 25 Leon Rabin Awards and 30 Theater Critics Forum Awards in its first nineteen seasons. It has also been named the best theater company by the Dallas Voice Readers and by the Dallas Observer. It was also featured in D Magazine and on Good Morning Texas and Daybreak on WFAA.The program service expenses were play production expenses. These expenses included theater rental, royalty payments, labor for cast, crew, directors, and designers, lighting, sound, filming, editing, streaming, sets, costumes, props, travel, and ticketing expenditures.Uptown Players, Inc. productions are also supported by approximately 125 volunteers who help provide labor in various capacities in support of the theater.

    Expenses $714,697 · Grants $1,763 · Revenue $352,343

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jeffrey A Rane

    Executive Producer

    Total calculated
    $35,245
    From this org
    $35,245
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Charles Craig Lynch

    Executive Producer

    Total calculated
    $79,320
    From this org
    $79,320
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nancy Rubin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $2,940
    From this org
    $2,940
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Coy Covington

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $1,050
    From this org
    $1,050
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Jansen

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeff Falin

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kate Newman

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Barbara Rosenberg

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tomas Soto

    Fundraising Committee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Doug Dorey

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tri McBath

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ruth Vera

    Board Member

    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
2023
Filed
12 March 2024
IRS schema version
2023v4.0
Source object
202420729349301607

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