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MEETINGHOUSE ARTS

EIN 47-5194581 FREEPORT, ME

Revenue 2023
$314,225
Expenses 2023
$315,460

Program services were 87.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
2000
Street
40 MAIN 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 · 2023

Mission

The mission of Meetinghouse Arts is to cultivate Greater Freeport as a vibrant center for arts and culture by fostering creative collaboration, expanding access to arts and cultural assets, and amplifying the arts and culture as powerful tools to create, strengthen, and connect community.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The mission of Meetinghouse Arts is to cultivate Greater Freeport as a vibrant center for arts and culture by fostering creative collaborations, expanding access to arts and cultural resources, and amplifying the arts and culture as tools to economically strengthen, educate, and connect community.

  • 2023 saw progress on numerous fronts. The National Endowment for the Arts awarded us an "Our Town" grant to help finance a project to capture a moment in time in Freeport, ME. As the town looks to diversify from its identity as an outlet store mecca, this project identifies the qualities residents most value and celebrate about their hometown. The NEA grant is especially valued as it seldom goes to organizations as young as Meetinghouse Arts. The project is taking place in 2024.

  • Helping to fulfill our mission, we mounted a multi-faceted exhibit of Robert Shetterly's "Americans Who Tell The Truth" project in our Gallery, with support activities on our Stage. The exhibit included: * a showing of Shetterly's portraits of truth-tellers in our Gallery, * a one-woman show on our Stage focussed on truth-teller Rachel Carson, * an Indigenous Peoples panel discussion and screening of the related movie "Dawnland," It also provided an opportunity to engage with our schools. We worked with teachers on lesson plans inspired by Shetterly's truth-tellers. Students visited the Gallery to witness and discuss Shetterly's portraits and the difference individuals can make through the strength of their convictions.

    Expenses $8,500 · Grants $5,000 · Revenue $2,550

  • The Onion Foundation also supported our work with an operational grant which has had the follow-up benefit of workshops to help strengthen Meetinghouse Arts as an organization. Meetinghouse Arts offers a variety of theatrical genres and cultural diversity exhibits for both local and regional artists. These include new vaudevillians, circus arts performers, improv comedy teams, jazz musicians, classical musicians, dance and spoken word artists. We collaborated with other not for profit organizations to bring engaging lectures to our stage as well as musical performances.

    Expenses $266,776 · Grants $10,000 · Revenue $301,517

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.

  • Suzanne Watson

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $50,000
    From this org
    $50,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Daric Ebert

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • David Webster

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Evan Haynes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jane Bradley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Stacey Lodato

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Scott Miller

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kate Werner

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Penny Davis Dublin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Lynn Shaffer

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Nancy Salmon

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Randy Mraz

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jamie Peloquin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Audrey Piltch

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Shari Broder

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $314,225
    Expenses
    $315,460
    Contributions
    $181,447
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $307,625
    Expenses
    $286,367
    Contributions
    $211,271
    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
    $324,039
    Expenses
    $168,042
    Assets (EOY)
    $646,614

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $539,511
    Expenses
    $107,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $493,641

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 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Jane Bradley
Mailing address
242 Flying Point RoadFREEPORT ME 04032
Website
freeportartsandculture.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.