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ALTERNATIVE THEATER ENSEMBLE

EIN 86-1110074 SAN RAFAEL, CA

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Revenue 2023
$82,382
Expenses 2023
$257,648

Program services were 80.7% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A65
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 150659

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

Primary exempt purpose

To promote appreciation of, interest in, and understanding of drama and dramatic arts; and to create artistic experiences that forge bonds of humanity between and among individuals, artists, and audience.

  • New play development program includes: facilitation of year-round playwright residency program with a cohort of diverse writers; annual commissions to playwright(s)continued on Sch. O

    Expenses $207,840

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.

  • Diane Barnes

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • Morry Cater

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • Bill Papendick

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • Champagne Hughes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ann Marie Lonsdale

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2
  • Eric Avery

    CO-ARTISTIC DIR

    Total calculated
    $40,446
    Compensation
    $40,446
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    30

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
    $82,382
    Expenses
    $257,648
    Contributions
    $62,528
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $383,919
    Expenses
    $179,916
    Contributions
    $367,936
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $158,711
    Expenses
    $154,845
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,565
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $75,899
    Expenses
    $50,554
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,789
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $62,944
    Expenses
    $47,922
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,444
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $37,135
    Expenses
    $36,127
    Assets (EOY)
    $0
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $62,120
    Expenses
    $54,848
    Assets (EOY)
    $0
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $54,823
    Expenses
    $56,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $0
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $36,897
    Expenses
    $38,335
    Assets (EOY)
    $0
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $79,179
    Expenses
    $81,831
    Assets (EOY)
    $0
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $94,947
    Expenses
    $91,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

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

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.