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Form 990-EZ for tax year 2024

Filed by TELLING MY STORY.

Totals

Total revenue
$88,483
Total expenses
$84,995
Contributions and grants received
$70,164
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$18,319
Membership dues (line 3)
$0
Investment income (line 4)
$0
Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
$0
Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
$0
Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
$0
Other revenue (line 8)
$0
Total assets, end of year
$22,345
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$22,345
Program service expenses (Part III)
$36,460

Program services were 42.9% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2024

Primary exempt purpose

Telling My Story is a non-profit organization that breaks down walls between socially isolated individuals and their communities through collaborative creative engagement. We use theater and the arts as a medium for social reflection and relationship building. Our programs develop self-awareness and communication skills with populations behind visible and invisible social walls such as those created by incarceration, addiction and poverty. Through writing and performing, people behind walls are empowered to reclaim their own voices and strengths.

  • Telling My Story at CoSI: Being with Others in Wonder and Awe was a program run for the workers of the CoSI (Church of Safe Injection) organization in Lewiston, ME. From January until March of 2024, the group met with Pati Hernández twice a week for 21/2 hour sessions. By practicing listening, speaking and withholding judgment in the group, the participants built and strengthened relationships based on trust, communication, and dialogue. We did activities that brought us together in the effort to dismantle the visible and invisible walls of preconception and bias that surround us, which many times we actively and/or passively help to create and maintain. Throughout our time together we focused on strengthening the community to empower the work the organization does providing the services to a community that is so invisible to our society. At the end, the group shared testimonials, wrote a manifesto, and built a powerful Talking Wall that was on display for many months in their space.

    Expenses $18,300

  • In June 2024, Marta Ceroni ran a Telling My Story workshop in Norwich, VT focused on the challenges of housing insecurity in the Upper Valley. Participants included community member with personal experience of homelessness as well as those who provide direct support services of some kind. The workshop culminated in a public performance at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Norwich.

    Expenses $14,300 · Grants $3,000

  • In October 2024, Emily Eisner ran a story-telling program in Pomfret, VT focused on stories from the Covid-19 pandemic. The program involved a number of group creative activities and discussions about individual experiences with the Covid-19 pandemic. The program culminated in a public presentation of the stories and a community conversation about our pandemic stories with audience members.

    Expenses $3,860 · Grants $1,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part IV

  • Emily Eisner

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • John Steidl

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ivy Schweitzer

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Angela Hernandez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kim Knowlton-Young

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Maddie Levangie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Laura DiPiazza

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
2024
Filed
13 May 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202541349349205564

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