THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A65Z

Classification

3000

Street

606 LAGUNA CANYON RD

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

• MAIN STAGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS: THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE IS THE OLDEST CONTINUALLY OPERATING THEATRE ON THE WEST COAST. IT IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF CALIFORNIA'S PREMIER RESIDENT THEATRES, PERFORMING AWARD-WINNING LIVE THEATRE SINCE 1920. ITS ACTIVITIES INCLUDE EIGHT MAIN STAGE PRODUCTIONS WITH OVER 300 PERFORMANCES YEAR ROUND FOR A DIVERSE AUDIENCE OF OVER 100,000 ORANGE COUNTY RESIDENTS AND VISITORS. THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE, A 501(C)3 NONPROFIT, HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS ARTISTIC AND EDUCATION AWARDS.

  Expenses $3,590,767 · Revenue $2,822,208

• YOUTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS: -CONSERVATORY: OFFERING COMPREHENSIVE, AFTER SCHOOL, YEAR-LONG THEATRE TRAINING IN A PROFESSIONAL SETTING FOR TALENTED, ASPIRING YOUNG ACTORS, AGES 10-18. SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE FOR LOW-INCOME YOUTH.-YOUTH THEATRE: A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED SERIES OF FULLY-STAGED PRODUCTIONS OF POPULAR STORIES FOR FAMILY AUDIENCES.-THEATRE FOR A NEW GENERATION: OFFERS PROVOCATIVE, ISSUE-ORIENTED DRAMAS AIMED AT TEENS, PARENTS AND EDUCATORS.-SPRING/SUMMER WORKSHOPS: OFFERS YOUTH HANDS-ON EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING WITH THEATRE PROFESSIONALS.

  Expenses $441,248 · Revenue $91,329

• YOUTH EDUCATION OUTREACH PROGRAM:THEATREREACH BRINGING BOOKS TO LIFE IS AN EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAM THAT SUPPORTS LITERACY BY PERFORMING PLAYS ADAPTED FROM REQUIRED BOOKS IN THE CALIFORNIA STATE CURRICULUM AND BUSSING THEM INTO THE PLAYHOUSE FOR A PROFESSIONAL THEATTRICAL EXPERIENCE. IT SERVES OVER 10,000 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EACH YEAR. THEATREREACH IS THE ONLY IN SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM THAT ADDRESSES CALIFORNIA STATE HISTORY AND LITERATURE CONTENT STANDARDS FOR GRADES K-6.

  Expenses $2,817

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.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,791,054

  Expenses

  $6,289,151

  Contributions

  $1,752,605

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,241,331

  Expenses

  $6,328,792

  Contributions

  $1,629,431

  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

  $7,097,197

  Expenses

  $5,037,728

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,542,598

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,832,037

  Expenses

  $2,638,846

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,832,356

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,463,774

  Expenses

  $5,576,902

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,987,298

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,930,111

  Expenses

  $6,827,430

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,844,982

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,070,331

  Expenses

  $6,414,002

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,829,650

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,070,331

  Expenses

  $6,414,002

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,829,650

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,638,797

  Expenses

  $5,035,836

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,214,915

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,101,028

  Expenses

  $4,732,538

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,828,797

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,448,529

  Expenses

  $4,388,839

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,430,035

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,437,298

  Expenses

  $4,476,424

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,389,407

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

• ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $69,292

  2023 · ARTS AND CULTURE

• ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $63,420

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $55,400

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $46,375

  2022 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $45,000

  2024 · TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $40,425

  2023 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $32,500

  2023 · TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $27,750

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $18,250

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $10,427

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• THEATER DIRECT INC.

  $3,585 raised

  2022 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$212 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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