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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by ARM OF THE SEA PRODUCTIONS INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$208,564
Total expenses
$161,747
Contributions and grants received
$145,804
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$62,689
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$71
Total assets, end of year
$430,240
Total liabilities, end of year
$22,482
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$407,758
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$144,230
Management and general expenses
$15,034
Fundraising expenses
$2,483
Program service expenses (Part III)
$144,230

Program services were 89.2% 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.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $62,958

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $82,846

  • 2a · Program service revenue: PERFORMANCE INCOME

    total $37,105 · related or exempt $37,105

  • 2b · Program service revenue: CAMP FEES

    total $17,985 · related or exempt $17,985

  • 2c · Program service revenue: FESTIVAL ADMISSIONS

    total $7,399 · related or exempt $7,399

  • 2d · Program service revenue: RESIDENCY INCOME

    total $200 · related or exempt $200

  • 11a · Other revenue: INTEREST INCOME

    total $71 · related or exempt $71

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $71

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $97,458 · program services $93,708 · management and general $3,750

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $10,579 · program services $10,172 · management and general $407

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $5,975 · management and general $5,975

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $19,802 · program services $15,729 · management and general $1,590 · fundraising $2,483

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,108 · program services $2,108

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $2,212 · management and general $2,212

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $1,344 · program services $1,344

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $18,672 · program services $18,672

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $3,597 · program services $2,497 · management and general $1,100

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $47,033 · end of year $37,649

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $10,144 · end of year $12,206

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

    $466,542

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

    $86,157

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $345,463 · end of year $380,385

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $2,711 · end of year $1,530

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $28,408 · end of year $20,952

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $371,521 · end of year $407,758

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE MISSION OF ARM-OF-THE-SEA PRODUCTIONS IS TO SPARK WONDER, ENGENDER JOY, OFFER INSIGHT AND ENRICH THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION.

  • AT OUR WATERFRONT CULTURAL PARK AND HOME-STAGE INCUBATOR IN SAUGERTIES, NY WE CREATED AND PREMIERED TWO NEW THEATER PRODUCTIONS, PRESENTED NINE PUBLIC PERFORMANCES, AND HOSTED FOUR WEEKS OF HANDS-ON COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING. -TIDEWATER ARTS & ECOLOGY SUMMER CAMP - THREE SESSIONS OF OUR IMMERSIVE SITE-SPECIFIC DISCOVERY CAMP FOR AGES 8-13. FISHING WAS VOTED IN FAVORITE ACTIVITY -WATERFRONT WEDNESDAY - A WEEKLY EVENT SERIES FEATURING AQUARIUMS, STREAM TABLE DEMONSTRATIONS, GUEST ARTISTS AND COMMUNITY CHIORS. EACH EVENING CULMINATED WITH AN ARM-OF-THE-SEA PERFORMANCE OF FROM RAGS TO RICHES: STORIES FROM A SAUGERTIES PAPER MILL. -MASK & PUPPET THEATER INTENSIVE - A SEVEN-DAY WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS IN WHICH PARTICIPANTS HELPED CREATE CHARACTERS AND THEN PERFORMED ALONGSIDE COMPANY PUPPETEERS IN OUR 23RD ANNUAL ESOPUS CREEK PUPPET SUITE. THE PRODUCTION DREW FROM EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY AND GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO OFFER A MEDITATION AND EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE AND IMPERIAL OVERREACH. 2025 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AT TIDEWATER CENTER INCLUDED: -INSTALLATION OF GRID ELECTRICAL SERVICE - AFTER FOUR SEASONS OPERATING TIDEWATER FROM A SMALL SOLAR TRAILER, CONTRACTORS RAN 550' OF UNDERGROUND CONDUIT AND OVERHEAD LINES CONNECTED TO THE NEW PROGRAM SUPPORT CENTER & THE PERFORMANCE TENT. NEXT STEP: A PERMANENT ONSITE SOLAR ARRAY. -PLANTED WATERFRONT BUFFER - DESIGNED TO ABSORB AND FILTER RAIN RUNOFF FROM THE PARKING AREA, THIS PLANTED BUFFER STRIP OF PERENNIALS WAS ORCHESTRATED BY MASTER GARDENER ANN KRUPP. -HAND-STENCILED BANNERS CREATED BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MARLENA MARALLO - OVER 150' OF IMAGES EVOKING CELLULAR BIOLOGY, HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES AND GEOLOGIC PROCESSES WRAP AROUND THE INTERIOR OF THE PERFORMANCE TENT.

    Expenses $142,232

  • OUR 2025 PERFORMANCE SEASON FEATURED 5 ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS IN 36 PERFORMANCES REACHING AN ESTAIMTED 8,500 PEOPLE AT VENUES AND EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE EASTERN NEW YORK AND ADJACENT STATES. A VIBRANT COMPANY OF EIGHT PERFORMERS AND THREE MUSICIANS BROUGHT THESE PRODUCTIONS TO LIFE. IN DECEMBER WE COLLABORATED WITH THE VANAVER CARAVAN IN PERFORMANCES OF OUR ANNUAL HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA - INTO THE LIGHT.

    Expenses $1,998

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Eliza Blum

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Deborah Conathan

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Victorio Decker

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Shabazz Jackson

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jolanda Jansen

    CO CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Susan Murphy

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Josephine Pagagni

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Zack Redmond

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Soyal Smalls

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Rakel Stammer

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Peter Varner

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Eli Winograd

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Shelley Wyant

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0

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
23 January 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.0
Source object
202600639349300600

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