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BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INCORPORATED

EIN 11-2336154 BROOKLYN, NY

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Revenue 2023
$1,322,355
Expenses 2023
$2,789,335

Program services were 86.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A65
Classification
1000
Street
1368 FULTON STREET

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).

Other organizations at this address

4 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The goal of the Billie Holiday Theatre is to provide audiences with complete and authentic portrayals of the experiences of people of African descent across the world. To provide artists of African descent pure and unapologetic artistic freedom. We do this by producing and presenting all forms of art, and by challenging unjust systems that would prevent artists, institutions, and communities full access to world-class arts, creative spaces, and resources.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Artistic Programming:FY23 marked The Billies 50th Anniversary Season and the first year we resumed in-person programming post-COVID outdoor festivals, live performances, theater productions, and a wide gamut of film, music, dance, visual arts, and other cultural offerings. The year began in July 2022 with our Black Joy Summer Fest, which included a multitude of free community events including dance workshops, jazz performances, film screenings (including the Black Joy and the 5th annual Nova Frontier Film Festival), our Skylight Open music concert series, and a 29-hour play reading series in partnership with QuickSilver Theater Company. Summerfest events attracted more than 8,500 people. In October 2022 we implemented our annual Restoration Rocks Saturday afternoon block party on Fulton Street, celebrating the people, arts, culture, and entertainment that make the Bed-Stuy neighborhood world-renowned. In May we launched an unprecedented exhibit called Black Genius: We Rise... Still, wh

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $2,409,695

As filed on the 2023 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Blondel Pinnock

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Colvin Grannum

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Toni Yuille-Williams

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Latoya Nelson Kamdang

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dr Durell Cooper

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Wendell Pierce

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kerry McCarthy

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Shadawn Smith

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kibra Yohannes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Taneshia Nash Laird

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Rasu Jilani

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $1,322,355
    Expenses
    $2,789,335
    Contributions
    $917,012
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,078,413
    Expenses
    $5,838,966
    Contributions
    $1,746,822
    Grants paid
    $3,958,816

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
    $4,732,438
    Expenses
    $1,384,632
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,498,562

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,716,427
    Expenses
    $6,244,089
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,103,055

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,954,965
    Expenses
    $1,075,824
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,731,773

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $767,784
    Expenses
    $552,373
    Assets (EOY)
    $742,100

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $726,633
    Expenses
    $536,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $307,901

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $726,633
    Expenses
    $536,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $307,901

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $279,045
    Expenses
    $270,264
    Assets (EOY)
    $115,481

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $250,356
    Expenses
    $272,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,169

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $532,932
    Expenses
    $457,743
    Assets (EOY)
    $147,043

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $286,350
    Expenses
    $432,890
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,570

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

  • The Black Seed

    $3,651,285

    2022 FISCAL SPONSORSHIP

  • Black Theatre United

    $307,531

    2022 FISCAL SPONSORSHIP

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 November 2010, reinstated 15 May 2012.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.