Totals
- Total revenue
- $686,790
- Total expenses
- $562,341
- Contributions and grants received
- $593,452
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $99,184
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- -$5,846
- Total assets, end of year
- $408,613
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $304,507
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $104,106
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $435,952
- Management and general expenses
- $86,996
- Fundraising expenses
- $39,393
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $435,952
Program services were 77.5% 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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1c · Fundraising events
$15,534
-
1e · Government grants (contributions)
$138,035
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$439,883
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2a · Program service revenue: BOX OFFICE
total $28,924 · related or exempt $28,924
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2b · Program service revenue: Other Program fees
total $70,260 · related or exempt $70,260
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3 · Investment income
total $0
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
-
8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$26,520
-
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$15,534
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$32,366
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total -$5,846
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $163,298 · program services $130,638 · management and general $16,329 · fundraising $16,331
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $80,948 · program services $64,758 · management and general $8,096 · fundraising $8,094
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $49,916 · program services $39,932 · management and general $4,992 · fundraising $4,992
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $0
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $39,626 · program services $10,206 · management and general $29,420
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $17,609 · program services $14,968 · fundraising $2,641
-
13 · Office expenses
total $30,180 · program services $24,144 · management and general $3,018 · fundraising $3,018
-
14 · Information technology
total $0
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $31,423 · program services $25,138 · management and general $3,143 · fundraising $3,142
-
17 · Travel
total $7,878 · program services $6,302 · management and general $788 · fundraising $788
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $10,065 · management and general $10,065
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24a · Other expenses: PRODUCTION EXPENSES
total $68,280 · program services $68,280
-
24b · Other expenses: PRODUCTION PERSONNEL
total $44,282 · program services $44,282
-
24c · Other expenses: BANK CHARGES / CREDIT CARD FEE
total $10,758 · management and general $10,758
-
24d · Other expenses: SPACE RENTAL
total $4,210 · program services $4,210
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24e · All other expenses
total $3,868 · program services $3,094 · management and general $387 · fundraising $387
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $17,993 · end of year $83,747
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $32,302 · end of year $76,286
-
4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $792 · end of year $3,131
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
beginning of year $327,059 · end of year $245,449
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $55,637 · end of year $15,991
-
22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $13,896 · end of year $29,500
-
25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $328,956 · end of year $259,016
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year -$55,343 · end of year $30,152
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $35,000 · end of year $73,954
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Waterwell is a nonprofit production company dedicated to telling stories that reflect the real complexity of pressing civic questions and by doing so, advancing change toward a more just and humane society. Built on our foundation of community engagement, education, and live performance, we create theatrical productions and live events that are timely, creatively daring, and emotionally potent to cultivate connections across real and perceived divides. Our projects manifest in more that one medium but everything we do is infused with our love of the immediacy of live performance.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Waterwell is a nonprofit production company dedicated to telling stories that reflect the real complexity of pressing civic questions and by doing so, advancing change toward a more just and humane society.
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Waterwell creates theater, film, and digital media that wrestles with complex civic questions, gathering people for cultural events that provoke, inspire, and build community. We are dedicated to telling engrossing stories that can reach people across real and perceived divides. We produce our projects using an evolving set of best practices that are influenced by the principles of community organizing and movement building. This is part of an ongoing investigation into how storytelling can have the most relevance and impact in efforts to create a more just and humane society.Our projects manifest in more than one medium but everything we do is infused with our love of the immediacy of live performance.
Expenses $435,952 · Revenue $99,184
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Lee Sunday Evans
Artistic Direct
- Total calculated
- $85,885
- From this org
- $85,885
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Sarah Scafidi
MANAGING DIR
- Total calculated
- $83,663
- From this org
- $83,663
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Jeanne Houck
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Maria Somma
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Nella Vera
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Aaron Chase
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Sujata Thomas
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Andrew Jackel
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Damon Owlia
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kimya Zahedi
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Gregory Franklin
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ALEXIS CONFER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Morad Masjedi
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Arian Moayed
Chairperson
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
Nzinga Williams
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Morena Baccarin
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
- 2024
- Filed
- 5 March 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202610649349300326
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