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MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC

EIN 39-0946025 MILWAUKEE, WI

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Revenue 2024
$26,509,388
Expenses 2024
$16,470,772

Program services were 79.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A650
Classification
2000
Street
108 E WELLS 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

THE ORGANIZATION IGNITES POSITIVE CHANGE IN THE CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC VITALITY OF ITS COMMUNITY BY CREATING WORLD-CLASS THEATER EXPERIENCES THAT ENTERTAIN, PROVOKE AND INSPIRE MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE AMONG AN AUDIENCE REPRESENTATIVE OF MILWAUKEE'S RICH DIVERSITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER IGNITES POSITIVE CHANGE IN THE CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC VITALITY OF ITS COMMUNITY BY CREATING WORLD-CLASS THEATER EXPERIENCES THAT ENTERTAIN, PROVOKE AND INSPIRE MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE AMONG AN AUDIENCE REPRESENTATIVE OF MILWAUKEE'S RICH DIVERSITY.

  • DURING THE 2024/25 SEASON WE CONTINUED TO PROVIDE WORLD-CLASS THEATER PRODUCTIONS WHILE CONTINUING TO BOUNCE BACK FROM THE LOSS OF AUDIENCES AS A RESULT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. ALONGSIDE A FULL SEASON OF PRODUCTIONS, WE CONTINUED RAISING CRITICAL FUNDS FOR A CAPITAL CAMPAIGN TO REMODEL AND EXPAND OUR COMPLEX WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART THEATERS, ABUNDANT COMMUNITY GATHERING SPACES, AN EDUCATION CENTER TO EXPAND STUDENT PROGRAMMING, AND MODERN AUDIENCE AMENITIES.

    Expenses $12,244,063 · Revenue $6,985,499

  • MILWAUKEE REP EDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS AIM TO USE THEATER AS AN AGENT OF CULTURAL AND POSITIVE CHANGE IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND IN OUR SCHOOLS BY ELIMINATING BARRIERS AND DISMANTLING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WHAT OUR ART FORM CAN DO. COLLECTIVELY WE CREATE POSITIVE CHANGE IN OUR CITY THROUGH OUR UNIQUE POSITION AS A CULTURAL ORGANIZATION THAT HAS THE CAPACITY TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER IN A CREATIVE WAY. ON STAGE. IN OUR SCHOOLS. BEHIND THE SCENES. IN THE LOBBY OR ACROSS THE TABLE, WE'RE INDIVIDUALS WHO CARE ABOUT MAKING OUR REGION MEET ITS FULL POTENTIAL.

    Expenses $795,191 · Revenue $111,989

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.

  • Judy Hansen

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Adam J Peck

    PRESIDENT-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kerryann Haase Minton

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Phillips

    TREASUER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bryan House

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andres Gonzalez

    AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joan Lubar

    AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert H Manegold

    AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Phelps

    AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ayad Akhtar

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tammy Belton-Davis

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ivor Benjamin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wendy W Blumenthal

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julia Burns

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joe Checota

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jane Chernof

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marybeth Cottrill

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amy Croen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert H Duffy

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Eric A Durant

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jay Franke

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jason R Graham

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christoper Hermann

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tom Irgens

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lynda Johnson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $26,509,388
    Expenses
    $16,470,772
    Contributions
    $16,068,907
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $34,796,157
    Expenses
    $15,799,635
    Contributions
    $25,826,570
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $39,550,812
    Expenses
    $15,224,300
    Contributions
    $30,451,990
    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
    $35,719,750
    Expenses
    $14,956,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $57,957,999
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,969,953
    Expenses
    $8,346,582
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,072,876
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,783,319
    Expenses
    $13,647,583
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,843,943
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,898,866
    Expenses
    $14,209,155
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,751,046
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,491,399
    Expenses
    $12,239,233
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,670,378
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,859,171
    Expenses
    $11,651,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,351,637
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,823,518
    Expenses
    $10,627,135
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,086,118
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,136,109
    Expenses
    $9,908,071
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,604,369
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,292,261
    Expenses
    $10,382,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,291,994
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $10,440,261
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,285,809

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

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