Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$2,886,446

Total expenses

$3,225,969

Contributions and grants received

$2,586,061

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$298,056

Investment income

$2,329

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$2,288,061

Total liabilities, end of year

$262,686

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,025,375

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,181,707

Management and general expenses

$850,409

Fundraising expenses

$193,853

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,181,707

Program services were 67.6% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• THE 2022-2023 SEASON INCLUDED:THE TILL TRILOGY BY IFA BAYEZADIRECTED BY TALVIN WILKSOCTOBER 7 - NOVEMBER 20, 2022 IN ROTATING REPERTORYTHE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL RECOUNTED THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF EMMETT TILL'S LIFE ON HIS JOURNEY FROM CHICAGO TO MONEY, MISSISSIPPI IN 1955. AUDIENCES MET A YOUNG MAN WITH BOISTEROUS ENERGY AND BOUNDLESS CHARM WHOSE FATEFUL ENCOUNTER WITH CAROLINE BRYANT CHANGED HIS LIFE AND OUR COUNTRY FOREVER.WORLD PREMIERE DRAWN FROM COURTROOM TRANSCRIPTS, NEWS ACCOUNTS, AND GOVERNMENT RECORDS, THAT SUMMER IN SUMNER SIMULATED THE 1955 TRIAL FOR THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL WITH PALPABLE ENERGY AND PROFOUND THEATRICALITY. TOLD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THREE AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOURNALISTS COVERING THE EVENT, THIS WORLD PREMIERE PLAY TOOK AUDIENCES ON A JOURNEY FROM 1955 TO TODAY. A POWERFUL LOOK INTO THE RIPPLE EFFECTS OF EMMETT TILL'S MURDER, BENEVOLENCE FOLLOWED TWO COUPLES - ONE BLACK AND ONE WHITE - AS THEY PROCESSED THE ROLE OF VIOLENCE AND LOSS IN THEIR RELATIONSHIPS AND COMMUNITIES FOLLOWING HIS DEATH. BARS AND MEASURES BY IDRIS GOODWINDIRECTED BY REGINALD L. DOUGLASFEBRUARY 1 - 26, 2023ERIC, A CLASSICAL PIANIST, AND BILAL, A JAZZ MUSICIAN, ARE BROTHERS BY BLOOD, UNITED THROUGH A LOVE OF MUSIC BUT SEPARATED BY PRISON BARS. WHEN BILAL'S TRIAL REVEALS HIDDEN SECRETS AND UNEXPECTED TRUTHS, THE YOUNG MEN ARE FORCED TO ASK WHETHER THEIR LOVE, AND MUSIC, CAN WITHSTAND BETRAYAL. UNSEEN BY MONA MANSOURDIRECTED BY JOHANNA GRUENHUTMARCH 30 - APRIL 23, 2023AMERICAN CONFLICT PHOTOGRAPHER MIA WAKES UP IN HER EX-GIRLFRIEND'S ISTANBUL APARTMENT AND DOESN'T RECALL HOW SHE GOT THERE, ALTHOUGH THE CONTENTS OF HER CAMERA MIGHT. A CROSS-CULTURAL, TIME-SHIFTING JOURNEY ENSUES AS MIA PIECES TOGETHER THE DETAILS OF HER PAST AND WRESTLES WITH THE COSTS OF HER PROFESSION. ONE IN TWOBY DONJA R. LOVEDIRECTED BY RAYMOND O. CALDWELLJUNE 1 - 25, 2023 THREE BLACK QUEER MEN SIT IN AN ETHEREAL WAITING ROOM INVITING AUDIENCES TO JOIN THEM IN A WHIMSICAL THEATRICAL EXPERIMENT THAT IS EQUAL PARTS HARROWING, HILARIOUS, AND HOPEFUL. ONE IN TWO SHINED AN HONEST LIGHT ON THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STATISTICS. CATALYST SERIES:IN FY23 MOSAIC DEEPENED ITS COMMITMENT TO BRINGING TOGETHER NATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED AND LOCAL ARTISTS FOR THE CREATION OF BOLD NEW PLAYS. WE COALESCED ALL OF THIS WORK UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE OUR NEW CATALYST SERIES AND CATALYST FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS.MURDERED MEN DO BLEED AND DRIP WORKSHOP PRESENTATION OF NEW PLAY IN DEVELOPMENT BY JENNIFER BARCLAY AND HANNAH KHALIL DIRECTED BY JARED MEZZOCCHIPRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DC'S SOLAS NUA AND DUBLIN-BASED FISHAMBLE APRIL 28 - MAY 7, 2023 THIS COLLABORATION AND PRESENTATION SPANNED BOTH CONTINENTS AND MEDIUMS-WITH THE PLAY'S ACTION TAKING PLACE SIMULTANEOUSLY IN TWO COUNTRIES DURING A GLOBAL LIVE PERFORMANCE-MEETS-DIGITAL THEATER EVENT MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS MOMENT.MEXODUS WORKSHOP PRESENTATION OF NEW MUSICAL IN DEVELOPMENT BY BRIAN QUIJADA AND NYGEL D. ROBINSON DIRECTED BY DAVID MENDIZABALDECEMBER 10 & 11, 2022INSPIRED BY THE THOUSANDS OF ENSLAVED PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES WHO SOUGHT FREEDOM IN MEXICO, RATHER THAN LOOKING NORTH, MEXODUS USED LIVE LOOPING AND HIP HOP TO EXPLORE AN UNDER-TOLD CHAPTER OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND CELEBRATE BLACK AND BROWN BODIES STANDING TOGETHER AGAINST OPPRESSION.CATALYST NEW PLAY FESTIVALJANUARY 19-22, 2023 THE CATALYST NEW PLAY FESTIVAL INCLUDED TWO PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS OF WORKS-IN-PROGRESS, A PANEL ABOUT PLAYWRITING WITH ACCLAIMED LOCAL WOMEN WRITERS, AND A WORKSHOP PRESENTATION OF A NEW MUSICAL.MAX AND WILLY'S LAST LAUGHWORKSHOP PRESENTATION OF NEW PLAY WITH MUSIC IN DEVELOPMENTBY JAKE BRODER AND CONOR DUFFYDIRECTED BY TONY AWARD NOMINEE SHERYL KALLERSUPERVISING MUSIC DIRECTION, ARRANGEMENTS, AND ORCHESTRATIONS BY GRAMMY AND EMMY AWARD-WINNER JOHN MCDANIELJANUARY 19 & 20, 2023THIS TRUE STORY, BASED UPON THE ACTUAL COMEDY SKETCHES, SONGS, AND JOKES OF THE JEWISH AND GERMAN CABARET STARS WHO WERE FORCED TO PERFORM AT CONCENTRATION CAMPS OR DIE, AMPLIFIED THE NEED FOR JUSTICE IN THE FACE OF RISING ANTISEMITISM.THE INVENTION OF SEEDSBY ANNALISA DIASDIRECTED BY NATSU ONODA POWERBETWEEN/TIME: A BALTIMORE CYCLE PLAYBY LADY DANE FIGUEROA EDIDIDIRECTED BY DANIELLE DRAKESARTISTS-IN-CONVERSATION: REFLECTIONS ON CRAFT AND CREATIVITYFEATURING LOCAL PLAYWRIGHTS ALLYSON CURRIN, TUYET THI PHAM, AND NIKKOLE SALTEREDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT THE REFLECTION SERIESA GROUNDBREAKING SERIES OF CITYWIDE CONCERTS, PANELS, AND SPECIAL EVENTS DESIGNED TO DEEPEN THE THEMES OF OUR PLAYS AND CREATED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OVER 50 CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS TO REACH A WIDE AND DIVERSE AUDIENCE. INTERGENERATIONAL MATINEESMOSAIC INVITES HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND SENIORS-TWO DISTINCT POPULATIONS WHO EACH FACE UNIQUE BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION IN THEATER-TO WATCH PLAYS TOGETHER AND THEN PARTICIPATE IN A POST-SHOW CONVERSATION. HIGH SCHOOL PLAYWRITING CONTESTMOSAIC PROVIDED DC HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO WRITE SHORT PLAYS WITH THE SUPPORT OF PROFESSIONAL LOCAL ARTISTS. THIS YEAR'S CONTEST CULMINATED IN AN IN-PERSON READING OF THE WINNING PLAYS AT THE DC PUBLIC LIBRARY. ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP PROVIDES AN EMERGING ARTS LEADER WITH PAID, HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE WORKING IN THE ARTISTIC DEPARTMENT AS A PRODUCING ASSISTANT, AND PERSONALIZED MENTORSHIP. MOSAIC WELCOMED ASHARA CRUTCHFIELD AS OUR INAUGURAL FELLOW.

  Expenses $2,181,707 · Revenue $298,056

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

2022

Filed

15 January 2024

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

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