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ZILKER THEATRE PRODUCTIONS

EIN 74-2486216 AUSTIN, TX

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Revenue 2023
$541,587
Expenses 2023
$573,900

Program services were 86.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A650
Classification
2000
Street
9204 LEANING ROCK CIR

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 · 2023

Mission

THE ZILKER SUMMER MUSICAL PROVIDES HIGH-QUALITY MUSICAL THEATER ENTERTAINMENT TO CENTRAL TEXANS AND VISITORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. ZTP IS DEDICATED TO PRESERVING THIS SPECIAL GIFT TO AUSTIN AUDIENCES BY PRODUCING THE ZILKER SUMMER MUSICAL AS WELL AS SPONSORING A VARIETY OF OTHER COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND YOUTH TRAINING PROGRAMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Zilker Theatre Productions, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides award-winning, free admission entertainment, boasts an audience of over 45,000 annually. ZTP is dedicated to the celebration and preservation of that unique America art form-the Broadway musical-by mounting large-scale musical productions at the Beverly S. Sheffield Zilker Hillside Theater in Austin's beautiful Zilker Park.

  • THE ZILKER SUMMER MUSICAL PROVIDES HIGH-QUALITY MUSICAL THEATER ENTERTAINMENT TO CENTRAL TEXANS AND VISITORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. ZTP IS DEDICATED TO PRESERVING THIS SPECIAL GIFT TO AUSTIN AUDIENCES BY PRODUCING THE ZILKER SUMMER MUSICAL AS WELL AS SPONSORING A VARIETY OF OTHER COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND YOUTH TRAINING PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $496,644 · Revenue $541,587

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • David Ponton

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $50,000
    From this org
    $50,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lisa Muir

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Isett

    First Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mac Ragsdale

    Second Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Yvette Moreno

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Becky Diffen

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Celeste Dillon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Keith Hale

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elyssa Howard

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heidi Okla

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Taylor Smith

    Board Member

    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $541,587
    Expenses
    $573,900
    Contributions
    $504,946
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $400,231
    Expenses
    $415,472
    Contributions
    $386,758
    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
    $278,770
    Expenses
    $386,591
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,423

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $249,783
    Expenses
    $186,351
    Assets (EOY)
    $196,419

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $651,394
    Expenses
    $575,477
    Assets (EOY)
    $141,017

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $606,109
    Expenses
    $608,179
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,202

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $661,760
    Expenses
    $690,691
    Assets (EOY)
    $76,996

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $518,632
    Expenses
    $552,534
    Assets (EOY)
    $81,949

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $491,240
    Expenses
    $478,951
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,269

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $448,380
    Assets (EOY)
    $141,075

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $201,714
    Assets (EOY)
    $103,201

  • 2010 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $198,700
    Expenses
    $169,316
    Assets (EOY)
    $80,073

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.