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UPTOWN PLAYERS INC

EIN 36-4591959 DALLAS, TX

Revenue 2025
$938,104
Expenses 2025
$1,060,215

Program services were 73.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A65
Classification
2000
Street
1327 MOTOR CIR

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

Mission

The mission of Uptown Players is to present professional theatre that meets a rising demand in the LGBTQ+ community for audiences to see their life experiences Represented on stage. Our diverse productions represent the LGBTQ+ community attitudes, mindsets and prospectives about their lives and current situation. We also provide the LGBTQ+ community an opportunity to examine itself and to develop confidence, self-awareness, and pride. We provide a safe place for LGBTQ+ patrons and their allies to fellowship, educate and entertain through plays and musicals that create a greater positive public awareness and acceptance through the performing arts.

  • DURING 2025, UPTOWN PLAYERS PRODUCED SIX LIVE PRODUCTIONS: WE ARE CONTINUOUS, BROADWAY OUR WAY 2025, XANADU THE MUSICAL, EVERYBODYS TALKING ABOUT JAMIE, IMAGINE, and STAR OF WONDER: A CAROL ANN CHRISTMAS. THE PROGRAM SERVICE EXPENSES WERE PRODUCTION EXPENSES THAT INCLUDED THEATER RENTAL, ROYALTY PAYMENTS, LABOR FOR CAST, CREW, DIRECTORS, AND DESIGNERS, LIGHTING, SOUND, SETS, COSTUMES, PROPS, TRAVEL, AND TICKETING EXPENDITURES. UPTOWN PLAYERS, INC. PRODUCTIONS ARE ALSO SUPPORTED BY APPROXIMATELY 125 VOLUNTEERS WHO HELP PROVIDE LABOR IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES IN SUPPORT OF THE THEATER.THE THEATER HAS WON OVER 25 LEON RABIN AWARDS AND 30 THEATER CRITICS FORUM AWARDS IN ITS FIRST TWENTY-THREE SEASONS. IT HAS ALSO BEEN NAMED THE BEST THEATER COMPANY BY THE DALLAS VOICE READERS, BY THE DALLAS OBSERVER AND BY D MAGAZINE. UPTOWN PLAYERS HAS BEEN FEATURED ON TELEVISION ON GOOD MORNING TEXAS AND DAYBREAK ON WFAA, TEXAS TODAY ON KXAS, FUN ON THE RUN ON CW33, AND LAST CALL ON FOX4.

    Expenses $783,100 · Revenue $382,119

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Charles Craig Lynch

    EXEC. PRODUCER

    Total calculated
    $78,808
    From this org
    $78,808
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jeffrey A Rane

    EXEC. PRODUCER

    Total calculated
    $70,768
    From this org
    $70,768
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Nancy Rubin

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Barbara Rosenberg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Jansen

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • David Gifford-Robinson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Phil Perry

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Tomas Soto

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jannelle Gray

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Doug Dorey

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tri McBath

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ruby Aldana

    Board Member

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $938,104
    Expenses
    $1,060,215
    Contributions
    $483,067
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $958,520
    Expenses
    $982,213
    Contributions
    $552,312
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $809,655
    Expenses
    $868,452
    Contributions
    $408,847
    Grants paid
    $1,763
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,186,650
    Expenses
    $955,594
    Contributions
    $621,718
    Grants paid
    $2,278

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
    $865,128
    Expenses
    $698,505
    Assets (EOY)
    $419,706

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $385,587
    Expenses
    $401,013
    Assets (EOY)
    $233,307

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $825,311
    Expenses
    $844,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $130,067

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $926,336
    Expenses
    $924,178
    Assets (EOY)
    $144,624

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $926,625
    Expenses
    $926,956
    Assets (EOY)
    $136,806

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $865,378
    Expenses
    $865,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,732

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $656,954
    Expenses
    $602,830
    Assets (EOY)
    $114,932

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $696,048
    Expenses
    $660,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,312

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $499,927
    Expenses
    $507,740
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,497

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $519,194
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,729

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

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.