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LA THEATRE WORKS

EIN 95-3181653 VENICE, CA

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Revenue 2023
$1,339,677
Expenses 2023
$1,677,958

Program services were 67.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
681 VENICE BLVD

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 · 2023

Mission

TO ENRICH THE CULTURAL LIFE OF OUR NATIONAL COMMUNITY THROUGH THE USE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES TO PRODUCE AND PRESERVE SIGNIFICANT WORKS OF DRAMATIC LITERATURE ON AUDIO, AND TO ASSURE THE WIDEST PUBLIC ACCESS TO THESE GREAT WORKS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PRODUCE, CREATE AND PRESERVE AUDIO RECORDINGS OF PLAYS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

  • AUDIO PUBLISHING - THE ORGANIZATION MAKES ITS AUDIO THEATRE COLLECTION AVAILABLE IN CD AND DIGITAL FORM TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY LIBRARIES THROUGH THE ORGANIZATION'S WEBSITE, AND PARTNERS INCLUDING AUDIBLE.COM AND ITUNES.

    Expenses $297,446 · Revenue $170,346

  • LIVES SERIES - DUE TO THE PANDEMIC, LATW RECORDED TITLES IN-STUDIO AND MADE THE AUDIO RECORDINGS AVAILABLE TO OUR LIVE SERIES SUBSCRIBERS AND INDIVIDUAL TICKET BUYERS.

    Expenses $284,470 · Revenue $264,169

  • RADIO - WEEKLY BROADCASTS THAT MAKE THEATRE WIDELY AND EASILYACCESSIBLE TO AUDIENCES NATIONWIDE. THESE AUDIENCES EXPERIENCE RADIODRAMA THAT IS CONTEMPORARY, EDGY, AND SIGNIFICANT THROUGH THISAWARD-WINNING, CRITICALLY ACCAIMED RADIO THEATRE SERIES ON PUBLIC RADIOSTATIONS THORUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. ADDITIONALLY, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONALAUDIENCES LISTEN VIA ONLINE STREAMING AND PODCASTS.

    Expenses $373,465

  • TOUR - THE ORGANIZATION PRODUCES AND TOURS ONE TO TWO PRODUCTIONS A YEAR TO VARIOUS COLLEGE CAMPUSES AND CIVIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.

    Expenses $158,172

  • EDUCATION-THE ORGANIZATION DISTRIBUTES PLAYS AND EDUCATION MATERIALS IN CD AND DIGITAL FORM FREE OF CHARGE TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

    Expenses $19,009

  • HD PROJECT - THE HD PROJECT BRINGS HIGH-DEFINITION(HD) DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTS OF NOTABLE THEATRE PERFORMANCES TO CINEMA AUDIENCE AT OUR PERFORMANCE VENUE IN LOS ANGELES AND OTHEREQUIPPED CINEMAS WORLDWIDE.

    Expenses $5,801

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Eileen Lawrence

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Alan Finkel

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Sherry Bebitch Jeffe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Linda Lichter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Gary Jacobs

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Susan Albert Loewenberg

    PRODUCING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $95,639
    From this org
    $95,639
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Beegie Truesdale

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Hector Elizondo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Annette Blum

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Karen Rothenberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Gary Scott

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Elisabteth Familian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Jonathan Kidd

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Raj Patel

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Sonya Winton-Odamtten

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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
    $1,339,677
    Expenses
    $1,677,958
    Contributions
    $862,263
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,247,929
    Expenses
    $1,848,221
    Contributions
    $1,443,495
    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
    $1,428,952
    Expenses
    $1,050,071
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,357,968
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,247,896
    Expenses
    $839,230
    Assets (EOY)
    $936,017
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,661,883
    Expenses
    $1,693,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $554,918
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,034,841
    Expenses
    $1,949,550
    Assets (EOY)
    $791,573
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,576,181
    Expenses
    $1,770,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $578,400
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,024,570
    Expenses
    $1,783,688
    Assets (EOY)
    $834,441
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,612,807
    Expenses
    $1,839,522
    Assets (EOY)
    $602,644
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,638,106
    Expenses
    $2,317,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $868,238
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,724,732
    Expenses
    $2,085,300
    Assets (EOY)
    $471,176
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,175,600
    Assets (EOY)
    $767,424

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 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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.