Form 990-EZ for tax year 2025
Filed by STARLING SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $90,647
- Total expenses
- $88,689
- Contributions and grants received
- $57,248
- Grants paid
- not reported
- Program service revenue
- $33,150
- 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)
- $249
- Other revenue (line 8)
- not reported
- Total assets, end of year
- $3,099
- Total liabilities, end of year
- not reported
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $3,099
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $81,502
Program services were 91.9% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2025
Primary exempt purpose
Starling Shakespeare Companys touring performances explore the playfulness, complexity, and humanity in the plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
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Mackinac Island Shakespeare Festival: A month-long residency in whichStarling produces free Shakespeare performances four times/week in a public park. Public educational workshops are also offered. 3000 audience members benefitted.
Expenses $45,115 · Grants $12,849
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Shakespeare on Tour: Starling brings touring Shakespeare productionsto communities throughout the Midwest. Performances are either free orlow-cost to increase accessibility. 3000 audience members benefitted.
Expenses $36,387 · Grants $5,000
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Jessie Lillis
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Heron Kennedy
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Chuck Lillis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ralph Cohen
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Charlotte Wahle
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
- 2025
- Filed
- 8 May 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202611319349204056
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