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CAPITAL FRINGE INC

EIN 03-0561944 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2025
$94,648
Expenses 2025
$270,621

Program services were 69.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A65
Classification
2000
Street
996 MAINE AVE SW 757

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

Capital Fringe was founded in 2005 with a mission to celebrate cultural democracy and access to art and artistic expression for all. By embracing diversity and a spirit of independence, we create earning opportunities for individual artists.

  • In 2025, Capital Fringe made the difficult decision to cease production of the annual Capital/DC Fringe Festival after two decades. This decision followed years of effort to build and sustain stable infrastructure for large-scale open-access live performance amid the steady loss of affordable and proximate venues across Washington, DC. Fringe festivals require a dense cluster of spaces capable of supporting more than one hundred productions annually; while Capital Fringe achieved this for a time in Downtown DC at Fort Fringe and later across multiple neighborhoods including H Street NE/Trinidad, Southwest DC, Georgetown, and Downtown DC, the long-term erosion of venue availability and rising costs made continuation unsustainable. Over twenty years, Capital Fringe activated 158 venues, nearly two thirds of which no longer exist. While the festival has concluded, Capital Fringe continues its mission through new program models, including the launch of the Ed Tyler Fringe Touring Fund and through fiscal sponsorship of independent artists and producers across the DMV. These programs extend Capital Fringes commitment to open access, experimentation, and artist support beyond a single annual event and into sustainable, future-facing forms.

    Expenses $187,294 · Revenue $8,500

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Julianne Brienza

    PresidentSecretary

    Total calculated
    $108,156
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,156
    Hours/week
    60

  • Anthony Gittens

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Farrell Parker

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Gorodetski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $94,648
    Expenses
    $270,621
    Contributions
    $22,985
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $426,671
    Expenses
    $478,817
    Contributions
    $249,747
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $488,562
    Expenses
    $672,875
    Contributions
    $306,429
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $658,721
    Expenses
    $628,105
    Contributions
    $547,834
    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
    -$1,909,124
    Expenses
    $402,643
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,099,158

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $251,151
    Expenses
    $410,255
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,631,998

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $961,618
    Expenses
    $1,003,419
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,715,122

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,386,469
    Expenses
    $1,092,258
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,090,569

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $972,671
    Expenses
    $1,091,123
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,032,058

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $931,550
    Expenses
    $1,278,040
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,385,648

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,860,394
    Expenses
    $1,424,647
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,980,895

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,168,086
    Expenses
    $1,184,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,014,596

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,296,728
    Expenses
    $1,009,412
    Assets (EOY)
    $369,288

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $912,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,427

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

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.