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HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION

EIN 62-1651302 KNOXVILLE, TN

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Revenue 2025
$17,881,319
Expenses 2025
$15,455,438

Program services were 91.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A610
Classification
1000
Street
604 S GAY 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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO HOLD, MAINTAIN, RENOVATE AND IMPROVE CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE LOCATED IN KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A PERFORMING ARTS VENUE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND OTHER ENTITIES FOR HISTORIC AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES; TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE THE HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE AS A HISTORICAL LANDMARK; AND TO PROVIDE THE GENERAL PUBLIC WITH A GREATER AWARENESS, APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE THEATRICAL PERFORMING ARTS.

  • OPERATION AND PROGRAMMING OF A HISTORIC THEATRE TO PROVIDE A FACILITY FOR INDIVIDUALS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND ACTIVITIES IN ENTERTAINMENT, THE PERFORMING ARTS, AND EDUCATION.

    Expenses $14,116,259 · Revenue $14,006,524

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Becky Hancock

    EXEC. DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $204,752
    From this org
    $184,753
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,999
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $184,753
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $19,999
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $204,752
  • Ed Rottmann

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rick Blackburn

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jason Hamilton

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sandi Swilley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hannah Whatley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kim Bumpas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jim Clayton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeff Hay

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dylan Jones

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Omar Jubran

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeannette Mills

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Katrice Jones Morgan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Nelson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Liz Sherrod

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Latisha Stubblefield

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jenny Swanson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rob Candelino

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew Hart

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Myrian D Collett

    SENIOR DIREC

    Total calculated
    $114,488
    From this org
    $111,366
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,122
    Hours/week
    40
  • Ben Cunnigman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Curry

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Grider

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nancy Voith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wendel Werner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $17,881,319
    Expenses
    $15,455,438
    Contributions
    $2,130,062
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $18,045,140
    Expenses
    $15,532,286
    Contributions
    $2,970,675
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,039,055
    Expenses
    $11,021,563
    Contributions
    $1,715,555
    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
    $9,927,493
    Expenses
    $4,634,362
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,949,657
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,678,218
    Expenses
    $4,162,496
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,642,126
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,630,411
    Expenses
    $9,005,485
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,384,529
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,696,295
    Expenses
    $8,761,398
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,942,873
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,417,702
    Expenses
    $7,325,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,561,672
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,953,833
    Expenses
    $6,527,312
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,276,311
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,704,167
    Expenses
    $6,076,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,748,851
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,939,566
    Expenses
    $6,698,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,051,210
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,729,047
    Expenses
    $6,132,838
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,621,751
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $42,441
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,995,787

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.