- Revenue 2025
- $90,647
- Expenses 2025
- $88,689
Program services were 91.9% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A65
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 15 CORNWELL CT
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 · 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.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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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 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
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2025
- Revenue
- $90,647
- Expenses
- $88,689
- Contributions
- $57,248
- Grants paid
- not reported
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2024
- Revenue
- $67,383
- Expenses
- $68,493
- Contributions
- $51,133
- Grants paid
- not reported
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2023
- Revenue
- $68,489
- Expenses
- $77,833
- Contributions
- $42,161
- Grants paid
- not reported
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022
- Tax period
- 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
- Principal officer
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Jessie Lillis
- Mailing address
- 15 Cornwell CourtColdwater MI 49036
- Website
- www.starlingshakespearecompany.com
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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
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2024 SUPPORT FOR THE MACKINAC ISLAND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
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2023 SUPPORT FOR THE MACKINAC ISLAND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
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2022 PROVIDE ASSISTANCE WITH A MONTH OF WEEKLY PERFORMANCES IN MARQUETTE PARK (OR RAIN LOCATIONS).
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2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 11 November 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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.