THE HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

EIN 43-1583401 KANSAS CITY, MO

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Revenue 2024: $996,108
Expenses 2024: $1,055,092

Program services were 73.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A65Z
Classification: 1000
Street: 3732 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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

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KANSAS CITY CHAPTER OF YOUNG AUDIENCES INC
EIN 43-6046557
THEATRE ALLIANCE KANSAS CITY
EIN 83-2224332

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ORGANIZATION MAKES THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEAR-INSPIRED WORKS ACCESSIBLE TO A DIVERSE AUDIENCE THROUGH A FREE, PROFESSIONAL, OUTDOOR FESTIVAL, AND ADDITIONAL FREE AND PAID PERFORMANCES AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO MAKE THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEARE-INSPIRED WORKSACCESSIBLE TO A DIVERSE AUDIENCE THROUGH A FREE, PROFESSIONAL, OUTDOORFESTIVAL, AND ADDITIONAL FREE AND PAID PERFORMANCES AND EDUCATIONALPROGRAMS.

THE ORGANIZATION PRODUCES FREE PROFESSIONAL (ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION) THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES OF SHAKESPEARE PLAYS ANF PROMOTES THOSE THROUGH A VARIETY OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. FOR THE FESTIVAL'S 33RD SEASON (2024-2025) 20,963 ATTENDED PRODUCTIONS OR PARTICIPATED IN THESE PROGRAMS IN THE GREATER KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA.

Expenses $777,346 · Grants $4,132 · Revenue $173,602

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.

Sidonie GarrettSIDONIE GARRETT

EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTO

Total calculated

$129,267

From this org

$105,923

From related orgs

$0

Other

$23,344

Hours/week

45
Gabe EgliGABE EGLI

CO-PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Christopher GramlingCHRISTOPHER GRAMLING

CO-PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Wade KerriganWADE KERRIGAN

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Scott Ashcraft MDSCOTT ASHCRAFT MD

V.P. OPERATIONS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Lisa WendelburgLISA WENDELBURG

V.P. EDUCATION

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Allan S Gray IIALLAN S GRAY II

V.P.COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Chris BannisterCHRIS BANNISTER

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Beverly ElvingBEVERLY ELVING

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Ye BillYE BILL

PAST PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Tj LynnTJ LYNN

PAST PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Patricia DavisonPATRICIA DAVISON

PAST PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Linda WordLINDA WORD

PAST PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Dan BukovacDAN BUKOVAC

PAST PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Shirley Bush HelzbergSHIRLEY BUSH HELZBERG

PAST PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
R Crosby Kemper IIIR CROSBY KEMPER III

PAST PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Michael AbramsMICHAEL ABRAMS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Bernie AshcraftBERNIE ASHCRAFT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Barbara BlochBARBARA BLOCH

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Deanna DieboltDEANNA DIEBOLT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Karen HollandKAREN HOLLAND

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Tom MentzerTOM MENTZER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Johnathan StatonJOHNATHAN STATON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Jason WaldronJASON WALDRON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Susan PorterSUSAN PORTER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5

The first 25 listed. 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

$996,108

Expenses

$1,055,092

Contributions

$775,895

Grants paid

$4,132
2023

Revenue

$1,089,224

Expenses

$1,034,255

Contributions

$853,947

Grants paid

$7,734
2022

Revenue

$1,042,644

Expenses

$977,800

Contributions

$807,973

Grants paid

$6,549

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$996,108	$1,055,092	$775,895	$4,132
2023	$1,089,224	$1,034,255	$853,947	$7,734
2022	$1,042,644	$977,800	$807,973	$6,549

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

$1,126,486

Expenses

$945,343

Assets (EOY)

$1,170,520
2020 · 990

Revenue

$698,736

Expenses

$569,438

Assets (EOY)

$1,119,658
2019 · 990

Revenue

$626,802

Expenses

$419,135

Assets (EOY)

$937,037
2018 · 990

Revenue

$992,335

Expenses

$935,352

Assets (EOY)

$781,033
2017 · 990

Revenue

$1,031,155

Expenses

$911,808

Assets (EOY)

$635,915
2016 · 990

Revenue

$1,170,524

Expenses

$872,007

Assets (EOY)

$516,761
2015 · 990

Revenue

$904,878

Expenses

$713,008

Assets (EOY)

$247,947
2014 · 990

Revenue

$727,857

Expenses

$765,348

Assets (EOY)

$29,198
2013 · 990

Revenue

$662,128

Expenses

$667,908

Assets (EOY)

$52,664
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$610,778

Assets (EOY)

$59,997

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$1,126,486	$945,343	$1,170,520
2020	990	$698,736	$569,438	$1,119,658
2019	990	$626,802	$419,135	$937,037
2018	990	$992,335	$935,352	$781,033
2017	990	$1,031,155	$911,808	$635,915
2016	990	$1,170,524	$872,007	$516,761
2015	990	$904,878	$713,008	$247,947
2014	990	$727,857	$765,348	$29,198
2013	990	$662,128	$667,908	$52,664
2012	990	not reported	$610,778	$59,997

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

GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$141,115

2024 Arts & Culture
THEATER LEAGUE INC

$40,000

2023 Support cultural and educational programming
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY

$30,000

2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$25,000

2025 GENERAL SUPPORT
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$11,100

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
CAMPS FOR KIDS

$10,835

2024 Scholarship
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$10,500

2023 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$10,000

2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
THEATER LEAGUE INC

$10,000

2025 " "
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$8,075

2022 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.