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PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY INC

EIN 51-0143171 PORTLAND, ME

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Revenue 2024
$2,444,679
Expenses 2024
$2,987,197

Program services were 78.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A650
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1458

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

TO INVEST IN ART, LEARNING, AND CONNECTING DIVERSE COMMUNITIES THROUGH EXCEPTIONAL THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS AND PROGRAMS THAT CAPTIVATE AND INSPIRE.

  • LAST SEASON, PORTLAND STAGE DEVELOPED EIGHT HANDCRAFTED THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS; OUR EDUCATION PROGRAMS ENGAGED ALMOST 10,000 STUDENTS IN 13 MAINE COUNTIES; COMBINED WITH ADDITIONAL READINGS, WORKSHOPS AND GALAS, WE WELCOMED THOUSANDS OF PATRONS INTO OUR SPACE, AND HUNDREDS OF ARTISTS WERE CONNECTED WITH OUR COMMUNITY. WE EMBRACED AUDIENCES IN OUR NEWLY RENOVATED SPACE AS WE CELEBRATED OUR MAINE ROOTSFROM TRAILBLAZER MARGARET CHASE SMITH TO BELOVED MAINE PLAYWRIGHT JOHN CARIANIAND FOUND WAYS TO NURTURE THE NEXT GENERATION THROUGH A NEW CYCLE OF THE CLAUDER COMPETITION FOR NEW ENGLAND PLAYWRIGHTS AND A BRILLIANT TEEN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY'S PRODUCTION OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. OUR BIGGEST GOAL WAS FOR PEOPLE TO FEEL THAT PORTLAND STAGE BELONGED TO THEM, THAT IT WAS THEIR HOME. BY EMBRACING OUR COMMUNITY, WE FOUND OUR COMMUNITY EMBRACED US BACK.

    Expenses $2,330,594 · Revenue $1,240,940

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Todd Nicholson

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Cathy Stankard

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Daniel Tucker

    VP FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Edith Iyer-Hernandez

    VP GOVERNANCE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Bradford Knowles

    VP DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Robin Talbot

    VP IDEA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ellen Alderman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tony San Antonio

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah Campbell

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Carter

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Peter Clough

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Cowger

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daryl Fort

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cameron Goodwin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Margaret Groban

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dan Marra

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Leonard

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Theresa McCarthy

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alisa Conroy Morton

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kathleen Pacella

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carole Ann Palmer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Courtney Thorpe

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nina Trowbridge

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Meg Villarreal

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anne Wade

    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
    $2,444,679
    Expenses
    $2,987,197
    Contributions
    $1,034,044
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,587,152
    Expenses
    $2,685,281
    Contributions
    $1,271,185
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,370,435
    Expenses
    $2,303,303
    Contributions
    $1,398,318
    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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,447,796
    Expenses
    $2,427,578
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,129,045
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,598,940
    Expenses
    $1,602,260
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,688,125
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,460,851
    Expenses
    $2,222,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,191,394
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,363,282
    Expenses
    $2,316,224
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,069,318
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,308,485
    Expenses
    $2,340,708
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,117,484

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 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.