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RIVER AND RAIL THEATRE COMPANY

EIN 47-2489844 KNOXVILLE, TN

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Revenue 2024
$1,506,583
Expenses 2024
$951,242

Program services were 46.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A65
Classification
1200
Street
111 STATE ST

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

Mission

THROUGH THE POWER AND BEAUTY OF THEATRE, WE SEEK TO UNITE PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS TO EXPERIENCE AND PARTICIPATE IN STORIES THAT EMBODY OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

  • THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS DURING MAINSTAGE 2024-2025 SEASON:-OUR TOWN BY THORNTON WILDER-IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY ADAPTED BY JOE LANDRY -LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL BY LANIE ROBERTSON -STUCK ELEVATOR BY BYRON AU YONG AND AARON JAFFERISEDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING:RIVER & RAIL ENGAGED IN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WITH MANY KNOXVILLE AREA PARTNERS INCLUDING PELLISSIPPI STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, L&N STEM ACADEMY, AND TN ACHIEVES, EXPOSING YOUNG PEOPLE TO PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING ARTS WORKING ENVIRONMENTS.

    Expenses $442,662 · Revenue $75,137

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.

  • Joshua Peterson

    FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $101,176
    From this org
    $101,176
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Tyler Hays

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • David Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Kenneth Herring

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $97,491
    From this org
    $97,491
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Harrison Boyd

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Robert Parker Jenkins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Deaver Shattuck

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Amber Crane

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Katy Wolfe

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $1,506,583
    Expenses
    $951,242
    Contributions
    $87,575
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $518,844
    Expenses
    $866,319
    Contributions
    $351,895
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $825,616
    Expenses
    $827,104
    Contributions
    $641,338
    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
    $348,642
    Expenses
    $712,931
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,007,387
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $441,751
    Expenses
    $426,674
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,046,323
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $438,007
    Expenses
    $326,605
    Assets (EOY)
    $951,390
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $190,387
    Expenses
    $198,666
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,229
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $153,048
    Expenses
    $113,650
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,508

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Joshua Peterson
Mailing address
100 S Gay Street Ste 106Knoxville TN 37902

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.