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FORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INCORPORATED

EIN 35-1551064 FORT WAYNE, IN

Revenue 2024
$317,644
Expenses 2024
$332,550

Program services were 67.7% 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
2426 LAKE AVE

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

Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  • YOUTHEATRE ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS: CLASSES AND CAMPS PROVIDE HANDS-ON TRAINING IN ALL ASPECTS OF THEATRE, FROM ACTING AND STAGE PRESENCE TO TECHNICAL PRODUCTION AND CREATING ORIGINAL WORKS. IN 2024-2025, ACADEMY PROGRAMS BUILT THE CONFIDENCE OF NEARLY 450 YOUTH THROUGHOUT THE FALL, SPRING, AND SUMMER SEMESTERS. YOUTHEATRE PARTNERS WITH THE EMBASSY THEATRE EACH SUMMER TO PRESENT "LET'S PUT ON A SHOW," A PERFORMANCE-BASED CAMP OPPORTUNITY AT THE HISTORIC EMBASSY THEATRE. IN JUNE 2025, YOUTHEATRE ANNOUNCED A NEW PROGRAM 'YOUNG @ HEART,' PRESENTING VARIOUS WORKSHOPS FOR THEATRE ENTHUSIASTS AND FAMILIES OF ALL AGES IN COLLABORATION WITH INDIANA MUSICAL THEATRE FOUNDATION. MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS: IN 2024-2025, YOUTHEATRE MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS ENGAGED 114 YOUTH ON-STAGE, OFFERED 30 YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES OFF-STAGE AS TECHNICIANS, AND FACILITATED SCHOOL SHOWS ATTENDED BY 1,503 STUDENTS. A GRAND TOTAL OF 5,696 INDIVIDUALS WERE SERVED THROUGH MAINSTAGE SHOWS. OUR YOUNG HEROES OF CONSCIOUS PRODUCTION, SOMETHING HAPPENED IN OUR TOWN, FACILITATED IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE, POLICING, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH A STRUCTURED COMMUNITY DIALOGUE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE AND UNITED FRONT. THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF OUR 'STORIES FROM THE STACKS: THEATRE FOR YOUNG READERS' COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM WITH THE ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY WAS BROUGHT TO 1,480 INDIVIDUALS COMPLETELY FREE OF COST, REMOVING THE FINANCIAL BARRIER. COMMUNITY OUTREACH: ACCESS TO THE ARTS IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO YOUTHEATRE. WE WORK TO ENGAGE OUR COMMUNITY BY OFFERING A WIDE SELECTION OF PROGRAMS TO ENCOURAGE BROAD PARTICIPATION. OUTREACH EFFORTS IN 2024-2025 INCLUDED: WORKSHOPS WITH THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB; SUMMER PROGRAMMING WITH CAMP RED CEDAR; AFTER-SCHOOL WORKSHOPS WITH ELEMENTARY-AGED GIRL SCOUTS; AND PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY EVENTS, INCLUDING PBS EXPLORER DAY, FRIGHT NIGHT AND TASTE OF THE ARTS. YOUTHEATRE ON-THE-GO PRODUCTIONS INCREASED THEIR REACH FROM THE YEAR PRIOR, REACHING 1,185 YOUNG PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH FREE PERFORMANCES AT SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY CENTERS.

    Expenses $225,084 · Revenue $126,353

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • M SUSANA WORTH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARTIN FISHER

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HANNAH JANSSEN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROB KLINE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR KEN BUGAJSKI

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THERESA BRADY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID NELSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIN LOWDEN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LARRY WARDLAW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEATHER CLOSSON

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $64,217
    From this org
    $64,217
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • KARI SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARCUS WEEMES

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $317,644
    Expenses
    $332,550
    Contributions
    $187,748
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $270,799
    Expenses
    $369,489
    Contributions
    $141,792
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $346,510
    Expenses
    $355,548
    Contributions
    $196,991
    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
    $360,527
    Expenses
    $325,852
    Assets (EOY)
    $506,886

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $339,082
    Expenses
    $234,295
    Assets (EOY)
    $521,652

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $292,129
    Expenses
    $279,267
    Assets (EOY)
    $382,273

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $298,594
    Expenses
    $296,897
    Assets (EOY)
    $355,373

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $316,284
    Expenses
    $283,527
    Assets (EOY)
    $348,547

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $319,180
    Expenses
    $276,342
    Assets (EOY)
    $317,160

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $297,927
    Expenses
    $265,650
    Assets (EOY)
    $263,856

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $270,390
    Expenses
    $236,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $247,945

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.