CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER

As filed

Subsection

03

Street

21 Orinda Way Ste C - PMB 509

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

• There are three pillars of our work: MAKE, LEARN, ENGAGE.MAKE: We create art that represents the best of what we can do, and the making of it makes us better.Cal Shakes creates exemplary productions of works, both old and new, interpreted in vital and urgent ways. We do this with a commitment to bold theatricality, innovative interpretation, thoughtful excavation, to expanding cultural ownership of classic stories, and to being our best selves as artists, stewards, and members of our community.

  Expenses $2,495,496 · Revenue $1,279,061

• LEARN: We nurture a cultural of learning where we are both teacher and student.Cal Shakes seeks to both teach and learn through our artnot simply about the theater but about our world. We transform young minds through the practice of theater, we listen to and amplify seldom heard voices, we confront our own insecurities and ignorance with an openness to new ideas.ENGAGE: We forge community by dismantling barriers to participation.Acknowledging that the theater is a rare public forum, we pursue a robust culture of participation that values above all authentic discourse around the work we make. We endeavor to hold space for all points of view because it provides a deeper, richer, more nuanced and human experience of the world.

• Equity, Diversity, and InclusionAt Cal Shakes, we believe that equity is a practice. Our actionsboth onstage and offcan have a positive social impact by exposing oppression, addressing historic injustices, and showing how power can be transformed and shared in different ways. We endeavor to dismantle systemic bias by actively including, reflecting, and creating opportunities for our diverse Bay Area communities. We recognize that this work is ongoing and often imperfect, but we are committed to facilitating respect for the many facets of the human experience.

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,064,986

  Expenses

  $3,326,127

  Contributions

  $1,783,898

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,358,467

  Expenses

  $3,267,870

  Contributions

  $1,171,098

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,367,879

  Expenses

  $4,658,230

  Contributions

  $2,020,496

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,445,038

  Expenses

  $4,465,790

  Contributions

  $2,059,525

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,954,755

  Expenses

  $3,004,137

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,797,342

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,510,344

  Expenses

  $2,937,997

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,125,929

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,510,344

  Expenses

  $2,937,997

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,282,751

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,356,773

  Expenses

  $6,244,609

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,304,031

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,367,855

  Expenses

  $5,818,971

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,068,363

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,921,251

  Expenses

  $5,640,851

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,362,681

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,735,324

  Expenses

  $5,690,672

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,277,488

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,655,175

  Expenses

  $5,758,364

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,954,861

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,861,464

  Expenses

  $5,552,114

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,132,871

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,209,832

  Expenses

  $5,050,827

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,881,755

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• PLAY ON SHAKESPEARE

  $170,000

  2022 · CAL SHAKES KING LEAR PRODUCTION SPONSORSHIP

• PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

  $142,672

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• WOMEN DONORS NETWORK

  $100,000

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $66,000

  2023 · COMMISSIONING OF GOOD MEDICINE NATIVE COMEDY, GENERAL SUPPORT

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $50,000

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

• ARTS MIDWEST

  $50,000

  2022 · Shakespeare in American Communities: Schools

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $44,270

  2023 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $41,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $20,000

  2022 · ADVISED - TO SUPPORT SUMMER CONSERVATORIES. ADVISED - FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $19,600

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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