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CHATTANOOGA THEATRE CENTRE INC

EIN 62-0273170 CHATTANOOGA, TN

Revenue 2024
$1,578,385
Expenses 2024
$1,846,080

Program services were 88.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 4023

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

FOUNDED IN 1923, THE CHATTANOOGA THEATRE CENTRE IS A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY THEATRE CELEBRATING ITS 102ND SEASON OF BRINGING QUALITY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS, CLASSES, AND WORKSHOPS TO THE CITIZENS OF CHATTANOOGA AND SURROUNDING AREAS. THE MISSION OF THE CHATTANOOGA THEATRE CENTRE IS TO ENRICH THE CULTURAL, INTELLECTUAL, AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES BY PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY THEATRICAL EXPERIENCES AND CREATING OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE IN THEM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ENRICH THE CULTURAL, INTELLECTUAL, & EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THEATRICAL EXPERIENCES

  • ONE OF THE LARGEST ARTS ORGANIZATIONS IN CHATTANOOGA, ONE OF THE LONGEST RUNNING THEATRES IN THE SOUTHEAST, AND ONE OF THE LARGEST COMMUNITY THEATRES IN THE COUNTRY, THE CHATTANOOGA THEATRE CENTRE WAS FOUNDED IN 1923 ON THE BELIEF THAT THE ARTS ARE A SHARED EXPERIENCE THAT DELIGHTS, INSPIRES, MOVES, AND EDUCATES.THROUGH THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTED BY AND FOR CHATTANOOGANS OF ALL AGES, ALONG WITH ROBUST DRAMA CLASSES AND PROGRAMS, THE CHATTANOOGA THEATRE CENTRE STRIVES TO PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN MAKING CHATTANOOGA A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY.

    Expenses $1,637,326 · Revenue $1,138,274

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • LAFREDERICK THIRKILL

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • DARLENE BABBS COLE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JUAN MORENO

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • DAVID BINDER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LISI PHILLIPS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KRISSA BARKLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROB BLOCK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHADRINA BOOKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROGER CASS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANGIE GRIFFIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSH GARCIA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROL GOLDFARB

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEANNINE ALDAY-GROGG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MAGGE HUDGINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KIM JACKSON

    DIRECTOR/EX. DIR. START 12/31/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GINNY KELLY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BETH MCCLEARY-WOLFORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT PARKS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RODNEY STRONG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHELIA WOFFORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROLINE WALKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RODNEY VAN VALKENBURG

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $84,509
    From this org
    $84,509
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,578,385
    Expenses
    $1,846,080
    Contributions
    $389,913
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,539,784
    Expenses
    $1,873,836
    Contributions
    $451,567
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,435,134
    Expenses
    $1,693,909
    Contributions
    $419,187
    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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,456,466
    Expenses
    $1,264,963
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,575,751

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,025,529
    Expenses
    $837,988
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,960,894

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $944,432
    Expenses
    $1,159,029
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,415,758

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.

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