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SAN DIEGO JUNIOR THEATRE

EIN 95-2303700 SAN DIEGO, CA

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Revenue 2024
$1,450,287
Expenses 2024
$1,469,407

Program services were 82.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
1650 EL PRADO STE 208

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

San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six main stage productions each season. Students gain confidence, learn leadership, practice teamwork, and build a skill set - not only for a theatre stage, but for the larger stage of the real world. Current students between ages 8 and 18 are invited to audition or work on the backstage crew for eight main stage productions. Productions include Broadway musicals, adaptations from the popular canon of children's literature, and Shakespeare, and are directed, choreographed, and designed by Junior Theatre's production staff and professional guest artists.San Diego Junior Theatre aims to create and sustain a community of inclusion, where everyone feels safe, welcomed and represented, regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, gender identit

Activities or mission (Part I)

San Diego Junior Theatre is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six main stage productions each season and aims to create and sustain a community of inclusion.

  • Junior Theatre originally began as a community program at San Diegos Old Globe Theatre. Today Junior Theatre operates as an independent, nonprofit organization for the benefit of children throughout San Diego County, and is the oldest youth theatre program in the country.

    Expenses $633,541 · Revenue $406,463

  • Educational programs and productions are made possible in part by show ticket sales, class and camp registrations, public contributions. Major funding is provided by the City of San Diego, the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the San Diego Junior Theatre Auxiliary.

    Expenses $577,164 · Revenue $654,742

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.

  • James Saba

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $80,927
    From this org
    $80,927
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $80,927
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $80,927

  • Desha Crownover

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $26,567
    From this org
    $26,567
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Charlene Cornelia

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Justin Ruggiero

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Allison Harris-Turk

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Multer

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carlos Solorio

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rick Wisner

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Bill Schneiderwind

    Trustee

    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,450,287
    Expenses
    $1,469,407
    Contributions
    $317,024
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,541,885
    Expenses
    $1,367,291
    Contributions
    $404,276
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,863,686
    Expenses
    $1,271,076
    Contributions
    $874,537
    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
    $1,494,467
    Expenses
    $1,123,147
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,238,550

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,020,367
    Expenses
    $563,417
    Assets (EOY)
    $870,893

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $865,364
    Expenses
    $771,872
    Assets (EOY)
    $376,987

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,238,879
    Expenses
    $1,127,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $395,566

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,243,508
    Expenses
    $1,090,288
    Assets (EOY)
    $265,970

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,167,097
    Expenses
    $1,158,022
    Assets (EOY)
    $201,581

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,168,568
    Expenses
    $1,214,836
    Assets (EOY)
    $227,601

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,216,273
    Expenses
    $1,292,088
    Assets (EOY)
    $242,554

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,243,878
    Expenses
    $1,287,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $243,965

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,237,218
    Assets (EOY)
    $270,097

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.