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STAGES ST LOUIS

EIN 43-1434156 CHESTERFIELD, MO

Revenue 2025
$7,288,405
Expenses 2025
$6,479,744

Program services were 83.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
1023 CHESTERFIELD PKWY E

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 · 2025

Mission

STAGES ST. LOUIS IS COMMITTED TO CREATING UNFORGETTABLE THEATRE THROUGH ONE-OF-A-KIND PRODUCTIONS, INCLUSIVE STORIES, AND EDUCATION.

  • PROGRAM 1 - MUSICAL THEATRE PRODUCTIONSSINCE 1987, STAGES ST. LOUIS HAS PRODUCED PROFESSIONAL, BROADWAY-QUALITY MUSICAL THEATRE. THE MAINSTAGE SEASON, WHICH RUNS FROM MAY THROUGH OCTOBER, FEATURES THREE PRODUCTIONS ANNUALLY, EACH WITH 37 PERFORMANCES. AUDITIONS ARE HELD IN BOTH ST. LOUIS AND NEW YORK TO ATTRACT A DIVERSE AND HIGHLY SKILLED POOL OF PERFORMERS.STAGES IS A LEADING EMPLOYER OF LOCAL UNION ACTORS IN THE ST. LOUIS REGION, PROVIDING APPROXIMATELY 450 UNION WORK WEEKS EACH YEAR. MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS SERVE NEARLY 45,000 PATRONS ANNUALLY, DRAWING AUDIENCES FROM MORE THAN 235 CITIES ACROSS 33 STATES AND CONTRIBUTING SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE CULTURAL VITALITY OF THE REGION.

    Expenses $4,637,513 · Revenue $2,356,167

  • PROGRAM 2 PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMYESTABLISHED IN 2004, THE STAGES PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY (SPAA) PROVIDES COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMING ARTS EDUCATION AND OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THE ST. LOUIS AREA. AS THE ONLY LOCAL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY AFFILIATED WITH A PROFESSIONAL THEATRE COMPANY, SPAA OFFERS A UNIQUE, HIGH-QUALITY LEARNING EXPERIENCE.SPAA PROGRAMS SERVE MORE THAN 6,000 STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ANNUALLY, INCLUDING OVER 2,500 STUDENTS WHO RECEIVE DIRECT CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION. THE ACADEMY IS COMMITTED TO ACCESSIBILITY AND EQUITY, ENSURING THAT NO STUDENT IS DENIED PARTICIPATION DUE TO FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS. TO SUPPORT THIS MISSION, SPAA PROVIDES MORE THAN $15,000 EACH YEAR IN SCHOLARSHIPS AND PROGRAM SUBSIDIES.

    Expenses $758,109 · Grants $9,064 · Revenue $452,972

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DEAN P ERHARDT

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KELLY AINSWORTH

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JASON KEEN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LARRY CARSON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEANETTE HUEY

    DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAULA BERNER

    EDUCATION & OUTREACH COMMITTEE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROY BROWN

    GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SAM CARIOTI

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KATHY DAY

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BARRY DRAPER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GERALYN FRANDSEN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL R GIBBONS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RON GIBBS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JUDY KENT

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MERRY L MOSBACHER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • THOMAS T SAKIYAMA

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRAD SIMMONS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LYNNE TURLEY

    2ND VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ASHLEY YOUNG

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JULIE NELSON

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANGELA ADLER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • HEATHER AKRED

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAREN HILL

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDREW KUHLMAN

    EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

    Total calculated
    $121,440
    From this org
    $111,847
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,593
    Hours/week
    40

  • GAYLE SEAY

    ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $121,440
    From this org
    $111,847
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,593
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $7,288,405
    Expenses
    $6,479,744
    Contributions
    $3,252,369
    Grants paid
    $9,064
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,303,183
    Expenses
    $6,749,728
    Contributions
    $2,505,534
    Grants paid
    $4,993
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,102,243
    Expenses
    $6,143,489
    Contributions
    $2,002,088
    Grants paid
    $232,351
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,932,455
    Expenses
    $7,397,082
    Contributions
    $1,921,478
    Grants paid
    $76,752

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
    $6,807,370
    Expenses
    $4,302,467
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,559,436

  • 2021 · 990-T

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

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,784,399
    Expenses
    $2,343,775
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,581,683

  • 2020 · 990-T

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

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,743,071
    Expenses
    $4,891,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,896,391

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,351,955
    Expenses
    $4,627,970
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,833,469

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,567,318
    Expenses
    $6,974,963
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,598,405

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,242,099
    Expenses
    $4,778,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,650,690

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,257,268
    Expenses
    $4,661,014
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,331,931

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

  • CITY OF KIRKWOOD MISSOURI

    $0

    2023 DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

  • CITY OF KIRKWOOD MISSOURI

    $0

    2022 DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Where these grants went next →

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.