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PEOPLES THEATRE PROJECT INC

EIN 26-4705999 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$2,498,561
Expenses 2024
$1,896,446

Program services were 72.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A65
Classification
1000
Street
700 WEST 192ND STREET

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

ROOTED IN WASHINGTON HEIGHTS AND INWOOD, THE PEOPLES THEATRE (FORMERLY PEOPLES THEATRE PROJECT) MAKES THEATRE WITH AND FOR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES TO BUILD A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE WORLD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE PEOPLES THEATRE MAKES THEATRE WITH AND FOR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES TO BUILD A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE WORLD.

  • SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS OUR TEAM OF PROFESSIONAL TEACHING ARTISTS PARTNERS WITH APPROXIMATELY 20 ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, AND HIGH SCHOOLS ACROSS NEW YORK CITY, PRIMARILY IN UPPER MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX. THROUGH CULTURALLY SUSTAINING, STUDENT- CENTERED THEATRE CURRICULA, STUDENTS COLLABORATIVELY CREATE ORIGINAL PERFORMANCES WHILE BUILDING CONFIDENCE, COMMUNICATION SKILLS, AND CREATIVE EXPRESSION. THE PROGRAM SERVES APPROXIMATELY 900 K-12 STUDENTS ANNUALLY, INCLUDING MANY MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS.

    Expenses $224,290 · Revenue $84,833

  • ACADEMY FOR THEATRE, LEADERSHIP & ADVOCACY THE PEOPLES THEATRE ACADEMY IS A RIGOROUS, MULTI-YEAR THEATRE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN UPPER MANHATTAN. THROUGH ENSEMBLE-BASED TRAINING, PARTICIPANTS DEVELOP ORIGINAL THEATRE, STRENGTHEN LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY SKILLS, AND BUILD CONFIDENCE AS ARTISTS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS. THE ACADEMY PROVIDES A SUPPORTIVE ARTISTIC ENVIRONMENT THAT CENTERS DIVERSE CULTURAL EXPERIENCES AND OFFERS FULL SCHOLARSHIPS TO ALL PARTICIPANTS.

    Expenses $445,197 · Revenue $3,624

  • PRODUCING IMMIGRANT THEATRE THE PEOPLES THEATRE DEVELOPS AND PRODUCES ORIGINAL THEATRICAL WORKS THAT CENTER IMMIGRANT STORIES AND PERSPECTIVES. WORKING WITH PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS FROM DIVERSE CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS, THE ORGANIZATION CREATES ENSEMBLE-BASED PRODUCTIONS THAT EXPLORE THEMES OF IDENTITY, BELONGING, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. PERFORMANCES ENGAGE AUDIENCES ACROSS NEW YORK CITY AND AMPLIFY VOICES AND EXPERIENCES OFTEN UNDERREPRESENTED ON OUR NATIONS STAGES.

    Expenses $697,480 · Revenue $72,611

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.

  • Mino Lora

    EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $162,175
    From this org
    $137,124
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,051
    Hours/week
    40
  • Robert Braswell

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $131,055
    From this org
    $123,396
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,659
    Hours/week
    40
  • Zahira Perez

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kevin Thurman

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hiram Miguel Arnaud

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melanie Wuong

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Phillip Bettencourt

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Monica Hidalgo

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Deborah Katznelson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cindy Caplan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tanya Birl-Torres

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jose Morales

    BOARD MEMBER (LEFT JANUARY 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Renata Schiavo

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Renata Worob

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,498,561
    Expenses
    $1,896,446
    Contributions
    $2,259,358
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,894,310
    Expenses
    $1,502,533
    Contributions
    $1,757,233
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,709,634
    Expenses
    $1,388,139
    Contributions
    $2,603,652
    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
    $1,705,306
    Expenses
    $1,073,046
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,784,760
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $806,808
    Expenses
    $933,981
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,277,960
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,764,478
    Expenses
    $884,639
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,351,402
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $645,900
    Expenses
    $526,135
    Assets (EOY)
    $342,001
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $600,524
    Expenses
    $546,494
    Assets (EOY)
    $211,856
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $432,831
    Expenses
    $334,456
    Assets (EOY)
    $157,572
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $189,068
    Expenses
    $179,164
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,243
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $166,385
    Expenses
    $151,798
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,839
  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $170,412
    Expenses
    $174,638
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,252
  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $114,909
    Expenses
    $118,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,134

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 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.