- Revenue 2024
- $86,853
- Expenses 2024
- $81,658
Program services were 64.3% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- P12
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 316 E 55TH ST APT 3A
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 · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
Transforma is a New York based not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) organization with a mission to create interactive theatrical experiences at the convergence of consciousness, science and ritual. We tackle how scientific ideas and metaphysical knowledge about consciousness overlap and explore it in the arena of interactive theatre. We like to dive deep in the space where science, human experience and social issues converge enveloping the audience in an immersive, experiential, interactive experiment, which challenges status quo and opens up new perspectives. Our goal is to pioneer a new form of theatrical expression and develop a close community of artists and scientists instilled with the freedom of thinking and creating in alternative ways.
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Hailed by NYTimes as "Sleekly designed, thoughtfully assembled" , BIOADAPTED is a reenactment investigative documentary with actors portraying real people and scientists. We peformed two performances at the Segal Performance Center, at CUNY Grad during a theatre conference APAP, $2635.85. 2. We got a NYSCA funded 3-week residency at North American Cultural laboratory and created a Media and Technology Literacy workshop for the local community, read a new play and shot a short film about humans being impacted by artificial intelligence $25875.44 3. Science in Theatre Festival illuminates fascinating research through theater. Three new plays were written and produced followed by science presentations and talkbacks with artists and scientists. 7 day event $22031.54 4. Performed BIOADAPTED at 17th National Symposium of Theatre at Academe at University of Washigton and Lee $1945.57
Expenses $52,488 · Grants $52,488
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.
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Tjasa Ferme
Executive Artistic director, Board president
- Total calculated
- $7,068
- Compensation
- $7,068
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 30
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Irina Nazarova
Marketing advisor, board vice-president
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 1
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Catherine Alex Webster
social media strategist, treasurer
- Total calculated
- $650
- Compensation
- $650
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 6
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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2024
- Revenue
- $86,853
- Expenses
- $81,658
- Contributions
- $80,460
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $70,097
- Expenses
- $75,669
- Contributions
- $61,211
- 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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022
- Tax period
- 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
- Principal officer
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Tjasa Ferme
- Mailing address
- 484 W 43rd St- 30CNew York NY 10036
- Website
- transformatheatre.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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2023 Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund
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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.