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CHILDSPLAY INC

EIN 86-0336473 TEMPE, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$2,880,623
Expenses 2024
$3,765,386

Program services were 82.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A650
Classification
1200
Street
900 S MITCHELL DR

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

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists 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 · 2024

Mission

TO IGNITE IMAGINATION, WONDER AND JOY BY CREATING STRIKINGLY ORIGINAL THEATRE AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES THAT INSPIRE YOUNG MINDS TO EXPLORE AND SOAR.

  • THEATRE PRODUCTIONS FOUNDED IN 1977, CHILDSPLAY IS A NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY RESPECTED PROFESSIONAL THEATRE COMPANY THAT PERFORMS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN ARIZONA. AT CHILDSPLAY WE BELIEVE THAT YOUNG PEOPLE DESERVE TO EXPERIENCE CHALLENGING, THOUGHT-PROVOKING THEATRE OF THE HIGHEST ARTISTIC QUALITY. OUR RESPECT FOR THE INTELLIGENCE AND CREATIVITY OF CHILDREN DRIVES US TO PRODUCE NEW AND INNOVATIVE WORKS BY THE FINEST THEATRICAL ARTISTS, AS WE EMPLOY AN ENSEMBLE OF PROFESSIONAL ADULT ACTORS, DIRECTORS, AND DESIGNERS TO CREATE EXCEPTIONAL THEATRE PRODUCTIONS. OUR NEW PLAYS PROGRAM IS DEDICATED TO CREATING ORIGINAL PLAYS THAT SPEAK TO THE CONTEMPORARY EXPERIENCE OF BEING A CHILD. CHILDSPLAY REACHES YOUNG AUDIENCES THROUGH FOUR MAJOR PERFORMANCE PROGRAMS PUBLIC PERFORMANCES, FIELD TRIPS, LOCAL AND NATIONAL TOURING. IN FY25, CHILDSPLAY HELD 32 PUBLIC PERFORMANCES FOR 5,969 ATTENDEES, 52 FIELDTRIP PERFORMANCES FOR 20,820 ATTENDEES, 77 TOURING PERFORMANCES FOR 29,850 ATTENDEES, AND 76 NATIONAL TOURING PERFORMANCES FOR 38,041 ATTENDEES.

    Expenses $2,184,619 · Revenue $806,999

  • EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS CHILDSPLAY IS A LEADER IN EDUCATIONAL ARTS PROGRAMMING, HAVING ESTABLISHED A REPUTATION AMONG EDUCATORS FOR TRUSTWORTHY, QUALITY CONTENT THAT PROVIDES CROSS-CURRICULAR VALUE. EDUCATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN KEY TO CHILDSPLAYS MISSION AND PROGRAMMING. WITHIN THE PAST DECADE, SPECIFIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS CONNECTED TO ACADEMIC CURRICULUM HAVE BECOME AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF WHAT THE ORGANIZATION OFFERS THE COMMUNITY. THE ACADEMY PROVIDES THEATRE TRAINING AT OUR CAMPUS, AND THE EDUCATION OUTREACH DEPARTMENT OFFERS THEATRE EXPERIENCES IN THE CLASSROOM. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS INCLUDE DRAMA FRAMES, WHICH WORKS WITH ELEMENTARY TEACHERS TO INTEGRATE DRAMA INTO THE CURRICULUM, AND EYEPLAY, WHICH WORKS WITH EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS TO PAIR DRAMA AND LITERACY. IN FY25, CHILDSPLAY SERVED 1,387 CHILDREN THROUGH ITS ACADEMY AND 4,615 CHILDREN THROUGH ITS EDUCATION OUTREACH PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $929,452 · Revenue $832,737

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Steve Martin

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $135,403
    From this org
    $131,006
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,397
    Hours/week
    35
  • Dwayne Hartford

    ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $126,406
    From this org
    $119,013
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,393
    Hours/week
    35
  • Gaylord Gagnon

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alison Pulaski Carter

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tasha Cycholl

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nelson Ross

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Matthew Benjamin

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alan Fisher

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anthony Avalos

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cheryl Mandala

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Bray

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Jazo

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elyza Land

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hugo Tapia

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jennifer Van Kirk

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joanie Flatt

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Back

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julie Witenstein

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Linda Reidenbach

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lisa Coulter

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lisa Hobson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Maureen Feeney

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Miles Pondelik

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shirley Hawley

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Wissink

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,880,623
    Expenses
    $3,765,386
    Contributions
    $1,241,177
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,864,046
    Expenses
    $3,564,500
    Contributions
    $2,337,135
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,588,026
    Expenses
    $3,479,544
    Contributions
    $1,645,374
    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
    $3,822,737
    Expenses
    $3,298,982
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,399,283
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,391,340
    Expenses
    $1,836,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,938,024
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,125,566
    Expenses
    $3,178,318
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,453,209
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,782,489
    Expenses
    $3,280,285
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,556,990

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.

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

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

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 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.