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RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE

EIN 56-0662726 RALEIGH, NC

Largest nonprofits in North Carolina

Revenue 2024
$1,337,711
Expenses 2024
$1,393,650

Program services were 84.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A65Z
Classification
2000
Street
301 POGUE ST

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

RLT IS A WELCOMING COMMUNITY USING THEATRE TO ENRICH, EDUCATE, ENTERTAIN AND ENGAGE VOLUNTEERS, STUDENTS AND AUDIENCES OF ALL AGES.

  • RLT PRODUCES A WIDE VARIETY OF PLAYS FOR ADULTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE, WHICH ARE ATTENDED BY APPROXIMATELY 40,000 PATRONS EACH YEAR. PLAYS ARE PRESENTED AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE AND OFFER VOLUNTEERS OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN NEW SKILLS AND EXPRESS THEIR CREATIVITY. SENSORY-FRIENDLY PERFORMANCES ARE NOW OFFERED AT EACH OF THE FAMILY SERIES PRODUCTIONS. THESE ARE DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS, SENSORY SENSITIVITIES, OR OTHER DISABILITY, AND PROVIDE A SUPPORTIVE AND WELCOMING ENVIRONMENT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.

    Expenses $895,633 · Revenue $559,529

  • YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS OFFER HIGH QUALITY THEATRE ARTS INSTRUCTION IN A SAFE AND NURTURING ENVIRONMENT. THIS ENCOURAGES SELF ESTEEM, BUILDS CONFIDENCE, STIMULATES CREATIVITY, AND SHARPENS COMMUNICATION SKILLS, WHILE CREATING LIFE LONG APPRECIATION FOR THE ARTS. RLT ALSO OFFERS IN SCHOOL RESIDENCES, FIELD TRIPS, AND VARIOUS OFF-SITE OPPORTUNITIES REACHING UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS.

    Expenses $285,861 · Revenue $262,479

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.

  • Natasha Gore

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Steve Epstein

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Clif Cates

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rudra Dutta

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chanda Branch

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gene Cordon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Barbette Hunter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leslie Ann Jackson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Safiyah Jackson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Betsy Ludwig

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amelia Lumpkin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carol Machuca

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marquita Robertson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Suzanne Ruggles

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Phillip Bernard Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Victoria Wheeler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michele Weathers

    PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $100,212
    From this org
    $91,151
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,061
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,337,711
    Expenses
    $1,393,650
    Contributions
    $491,888
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,149,820
    Expenses
    $1,387,039
    Contributions
    $418,363
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,129,886
    Expenses
    $1,347,038
    Contributions
    $554,839
    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
    $1,564,641
    Expenses
    $1,187,559
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,794,529

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,057,790
    Expenses
    $769,319
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,513,385

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,169,400
    Expenses
    $1,316,942
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,179,699

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,410,777
    Expenses
    $1,428,352
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,187,338

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,316,407
    Expenses
    $1,272,295
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,144,203

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,357,846
    Expenses
    $1,240,514
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,088,337

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,481,644
    Expenses
    $1,195,871
    Assets (EOY)
    $950,935

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $998,592
    Expenses
    $1,116,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $756,777

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $977,212
    Expenses
    $1,022,867
    Assets (EOY)
    $875,367

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $906,296
    Assets (EOY)
    $836,081

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 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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.