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RED LADDER THEATRE COMPANY

EIN 84-2394273 SAN JOSE, CA

Revenue 2024
$673,370
Expenses 2024
$799,103

Program services were 77.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 1359

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

As a social justice theatre company founded on the understanding that the most essential component of a healthy individual is the creative spirit, Red Ladder exists to connect our most vulnerable community members with their own creativity - igniting their imaginations and amplifying their voices - empowering them to tell their own stories.

  • Arts in CorrectionsRed Ladder Theatre Company serves both youth and adults experiencing incarceration, with great success. These participants have often grappled with multiple and inter-related issues such as substance abuse, literacy and language barriers, employment challenges, troubled or abusive home lives, housing instability and the like, and often lack the resources to aid them in their efforts to positively affect their own circumstances. Through restorative justice techniques and Red Ladders focus on creative collaboration in an atmosphere free from judgement, participants impacted by the carceral system are able to visualize opportunities, imagine positive outcomes, and discover within themselves the strength to transform their dreams into reality.

    Expenses $403,512

  • Community Enrichment ProgramsRed Ladder provides creative engagement opportunities to a wide range of groups within the community - from seniors in our Japantown neighborhood to veterans and their families, neuro-atypical adults, or individuals experiencing the intersectional effects of substance abuse recovery, housing insecurity and mental health struggles. Through meaningful community partnerships with service agencies who work with these individuals on a daily basis, Red Ladder works collaboratively to ensure that the needs of our participants are being met, and they have the support required to achieve long-term, lasting and meaningful pro-social skill development.

    Expenses $197,972

  • Youth Engagment ProgramsRed Ladder provides a variety of opportunities for youth in our community to engage in the creative process. This includes work with youth in the foster system, work with students in the classroom or in summer bridge programs designed to give children a leg up when making the transition to a new school environment, and work with youth in a variety of community settings. Red Ladder has become a leader in performing arts curriculum development and uses the power of the arts to reach students, especially those with non-traditional learning styles, and to help them make sense of the world around them. The company has developed a broad range of activities that meet the State of California's Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) Standards and are in line with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Further, Red Ladder successfully executes curriculum based on the Studio Thinking Framework/Studio Habits of Mind with its participants.

    Expenses $13,987

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.

  • Karen Altree Piemme

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $145,835
    From this org
    $145,835
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Tricia Creason-Valencia

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Valeria Miranda

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ron Muriera

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $673,370
    Expenses
    $799,103
    Contributions
    $153,976
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,194,424
    Expenses
    $713,904
    Contributions
    $765,772
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,281,433
    Expenses
    $798,176
    Contributions
    $967,172
    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
    $676,566
    Expenses
    $821,880
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,400,854

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $911,195
    Expenses
    $554,967
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,591,912

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,579,293
    Expenses
    $581,337
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,225,958

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 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.