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THEATRE BAY AREA

EIN 94-2476071 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$881,494
Expenses 2024
$935,312

Program services were 62.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A026
Classification
1200
Street
499 ALABAMA 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

(cont from page 1) democratic society, and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Theatre Bay Areas mission is to unite, strengthen, promote and advance the theatre community in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on behalf of the conviction that the performing arts are an essential public good, critical to a healthy and truly [continued next page]

  • The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the largest and most dynamic theatre centers in the country. Theatre Bay Area was founded in 1976 to serve this vital artistic community, and is today one of the largest regional theatre service organizations in North America. Known for its thought leadership and innovative programming, TBA serves as a model for other service organizations around the country.Theatre Bay Areas membership is derived from 11 Bay Area counties and consists of almost 300 Bay Area theatre and dance companies, from multi-million dollar organizations to grassroots community groups; over 2,000 theatre artists; 100+ organizational members, from libraries and universities to theatre-related professional services; and some 22,000 theatre patron subscribers.

    Expenses $583,825 · Grants $143,500 · Revenue $230,686

  • Programs include:Equipping the field for success (Expenses $101,165)Programs include an Annual Conference which draws some 400 theatre artists and administrators for a day-long intensive of training and networking; professional development such as our ATLAS program, providing theater artists with training in career planning; grant programs such as CA$H, offering grants to artists and small-budget companies; General Auditions, annually showcasing 400 actors to 100 Bay Area theatres; online Audition and Job Listings and an online Talent Bank.

  • Recognizing achievement (Expenses $192,754)Special grants and awards such as the Glickman Award for a new play, Rella Lossy Award is an award for professionally oriented theatre organizations that will be presenting a world-premiere full-length play. During the year ended June 30, 2023, we awarded $170,000 in various grants to deserving artists and organizations.Developing audiences (Expenses $288,437)Programs include the Bay Area Audience Database, a unique tool, with dozens of arts nonprofits pooling their audience data on 1.8 million arts-goers to better their marketing and research options; and a weekly e-newsletter, The Theatregoer, which reaches thousands of subscribers.

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.

  • Sean Fenton

    Exec Director

    Total calculated
    $118,971
    From this org
    $111,395
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,576
    Hours/week
    37

  • Peter Kuo

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kevin Kosik

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Sunshine Deffner

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shafer Mazow

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Varun Bhagwan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ari Lipsky

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Vivian Gomes

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karina Gutierrez

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rachel Mann

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • E Craig Moody

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Kennedy

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Smita Rajan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dawn Monique Williams

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sara Dean

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shireen Husain Wetmore

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $881,494
    Expenses
    $935,312
    Contributions
    $769,462
    Grants paid
    $143,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $754,061
    Expenses
    $837,071
    Contributions
    $680,080
    Grants paid
    $138,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $934,969
    Expenses
    $924,645
    Contributions
    $872,696
    Grants paid
    $170,000

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,059,460
    Expenses
    $1,002,042
    Assets (EOY)
    $652,898

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,008,490
    Expenses
    $1,108,528
    Assets (EOY)
    $695,333

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,017,091
    Expenses
    $1,481,798
    Assets (EOY)
    $901,526

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,451,114
    Expenses
    $1,203,200
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,297,372

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $931,077
    Expenses
    $1,156,775
    Assets (EOY)
    $697,745

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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.