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YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER INC

EIN 52-2102391 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2023
$1,106,585
Expenses 2023
$1,155,207

Program services were 81.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A650
Classification
2000
Street
6925 WILLOW ST NW

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

Mission

Young Playwrights Theater (YPT) is committed to using theater & writing to foster dialogue, arts education, literacy & conflict resolution in communities.

  • AFTER-SCHOOL PLAYWRITING PROGRAM: YPT provides out-of-school-time (OST) programming for elementary, middle, and high school students year-round, providing ensemble-based creative writing and performance opportunities in students schools and communities. YPT also partners with several schools each year to build their first-ever youth-centered, comprehensive drama programs, which include enrichment activities focused on playwriting, socio-emotional learning, literacy, and performance. Through this lens, young people have ownership over the creative process, and develop dramatic work on topics that interest them and reflect their lived experience.

    Expenses $336,668 · Revenue $1,852

  • SILENCE IS VIOLENCE AND SPECIAL PROJECTS: YPT is the only professional theater dedicated entirely to arts education & producing student-written work. Each year, YPT produces an Annual Performance Series of student-written plays, which are attended by 1,000 audience members from across the region. This series includes Special Projects focusing on mentoring young playwrights as they develop full-length plays for production as well as Silence is Violence (SiV), YPTs core annual production. SiV is YPTs most immediate & direct route of addressing social justice issues affecting Washington, DC area youth through performance & community dialogue.

    Expenses $335,668 · Revenue $21,250

  • IN-SCHOOL PLAYWRITING PROGRAM: The In-School Playwriting (ISP) Program weaves the art of playwriting into Language Arts curricula as part of students school day instruction to enhance literacy, creative expression, and communication. Every ISP student writes their own play from idea to final draft and we bring local career actors into the classroom to perform students plays, allowing them to see their words brought to life by career artists. The majority of YPTs ISP students are served through our larger Young Playwrights Workshop initiative, a professional development initiative supporting DCPS theater educators to develop and implement their own playwriting curricula. These classes are contributing to a Playspiration Festival where students share plays they have developed over the school year with a partner school exploring the same theme. These students also share their plays during the annual DCPS Performing Arts Festival each May.

    Expenses $274,047 · Revenue $18,540

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.

  • Brigitte Winter

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $126,611
    From this org
    $120,611
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,000
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lisa Rawls

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Courtney Knowles

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lara Trujillo Webb

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michele Walters

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Walt Derengowski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Camille Bryan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Damion Perkins

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LaMar Bagley

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Tyrone D Short

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Lemar White

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Michone T Johnson

    Vice-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Paul Feeko

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $1,106,585
    Expenses
    $1,155,207
    Contributions
    $1,048,988
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $822,291
    Expenses
    $1,067,319
    Contributions
    $737,907
    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
    $1,115,828
    Expenses
    $802,244
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,063,314

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $862,843
    Expenses
    $833,399
    Assets (EOY)
    $907,850

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $870,616
    Expenses
    $856,439
    Assets (EOY)
    $828,216

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $792,589
    Expenses
    $838,827
    Assets (EOY)
    $706,869

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $625,317
    Expenses
    $821,306
    Assets (EOY)
    $728,698

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $715,501
    Expenses
    $789,778
    Assets (EOY)
    $907,183

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.