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UNION ARTS CENTER

EIN 91-0787792 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2024
$4,965,830
Expenses 2024
$7,848,729

Program services were 69.2% 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
700 UNION 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

ORGANIZATION MISSION: ACT IS A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE WHERE ARTISTIC AMBITION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT UNITE. ORGANIZATION VISION: ACT ENVISIONS A WORLD WHERE THE POWER OF THEATRE EXPANDS OUR COLLECTIVE UNDERSTANDING OF COMMUNITY AND OUR OWN HUMANITY. FOUNDED IN 1965, ACT IS A SEATTLE LANDMARK AND HAS MADE A SIGNIFICANT AND LASTING CONTRIBUTION TO THE VITALITY OF SEATTLES DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD AND ARTS COMMUNITY. FOR MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS, THE ORGANIZATION HAS VALUED AND ELEVATED THE WORK OF LOCAL ARTISTS, FOSTERED COMMUNITY CONNECTION, AND TRANSFORMED INDIVIDUAL LIVES THROUGH THE POWER OF STORYTELLING. ACT IS COMMITTED TO MAKING THEATRE AN ACT OF CITIZENSHIP BY ENGAGING AUDIENCES IN DIALOGUE ABOUT THE ISSUES OF OUR TIME AND CONNECTING AUTHENTICALLY WITH NEW AUDIENCES, PARTNERS, AND COMMUNITIES. ON JULY 1, 2025, SUBSEQUENT TO THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR, ACT MERGED WITH SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY TO FORM UNION ARTS CENTER.

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

    Expenses $4,206,369 · Revenue $1,139,575

  • ACT PRODUCED ITS 49TH ANNUAL STAGING OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SERVING 10,869 SINGLE-TICKET PATRONS. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO MAINTAINED ITS EDUCATION OFFERINGS BY PRODUCING TWO SOLD-OUT STUDENT MATINEES, PROVIDING THEATRICAL EXPERIENCES FOR 850 STUDENTS AND TEACHERS.

    Expenses $1,058,162 · Revenue $1,367,000

  • ACTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS DEVELOP COMMUNITY MEMBERS AS BOTH ARTISTS AND CIVIC PARTICIPANTS THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL THEATRE TRAINING GROUNDED IN ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNITY BUILDING. ACTS FLAGSHIP EDUCATION INITIATIVE IS THE YOUNG CORE COMPANY (YCC), A TEEN-FOCUSED PROGRAM DESIGNED TO BE WELCOMING AND INCLUSIVE FOR PARTICIPANTS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS. YCC OPERATES ON A PAY-WHAT-YOU-CHOOSE TUITION MODEL TO ELIMINATE COST AS A BARRIER TO PARTICIPATION. THE PROGRAM IS OFFERED QUARTERLY, ALLOWING STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE YEAR-ROUND OR FOR A SINGLE SESSION BASED ON INDIVIDUAL AVAILABILITY AND INTEREST.

    Expenses $169,809 · Revenue $32,030

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.

  • CYNTHIA HUFFMAN

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.75 + 0.25 related

  • ERIKA NESHOLM

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GARY HOULAHAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.75 + 0.25 related

  • BILL KUHN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAN MARKHAM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BEN SPICER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BOB WRIGHT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AL ROUNDTREE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HANA TEDESSE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN BRADSHAW

    MANAGING DIR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • ELISABETH FARWELL-MORELAND

    INTERIM ARTI

    Total calculated
    $52,972
    From this org
    $50,769
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,203
    Hours/week
    40

  • MIRNA Y FRITZ

    FINANCE DIRE

    Total calculated
    $61,171
    From this org
    $57,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,671
    Hours/week
    40

  • ALYSSA MONTGOMERY

    GENERAL MANA

    Total calculated
    $136,129
    From this org
    $127,269
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,860
    Hours/week
    40

  • ASTRID RIERA

    DIR. PEOPLE/

    Total calculated
    $117,230
    From this org
    $117,230
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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
    $4,965,830
    Expenses
    $7,848,729
    Contributions
    $2,315,512
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,059,030
    Expenses
    $6,393,356
    Contributions
    $2,727,112
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,677,848
    Expenses
    $5,661,800
    Contributions
    $3,823,963
    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
    $6,596,754
    Expenses
    $5,017,371
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,152,223

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,477,428
    Expenses
    $1,286,124
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,325,552

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,242,525
    Expenses
    $3,081,733
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,230,639

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,979,383
    Expenses
    $6,428,063
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,380,350

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,463,371
    Expenses
    $6,139,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,854,660

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,317,370
    Expenses
    $6,285,065
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,828,887

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,507,674
    Expenses
    $6,425,699
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,108,593

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,612,913
    Expenses
    $6,547,435
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,268,234

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,244,736
    Expenses
    $6,230,464
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,501,813

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,605,234
    Expenses
    $5,727,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,688,488

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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.