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NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP INCORPORATED

EIN 13-2632596 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$20,466,436
Expenses 2024
$4,401,132

Program services were 75.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A650
Classification
2300
Street
213 W 137TH 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

The National Black Theatre Workshop Incorporated was incorporated in October 1968 as a cultural and educational institution. The purpose of the Organization is to create a cultural hub for community-based artists; to offer through its programs, namely Theatre Arts, Entrepreneurial Arts and Communication Arts, activities for cultural enrichment and education; and to generate a creative environment where artistic needs could be satisfied. The Organization was also established to forward community development, economic empowerment and to ensure the cultural conservancy of people of African descent.

  • Theatre Arts Program

    Expenses $2,282,712 · Revenue $979,818

  • Alternative Learning & Social Impact Program

    Expenses $833,204 · Revenue $34,794

  • Theatre Arts Capital Project

    Expenses $199,234 · Revenue $13,546,511

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.

  • Barbara Lythcott

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $183,246
    From this org
    $142,438
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,808
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $142,438
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,034
    Nontaxable benefits
    $38,774
    Filer's total
    $183,246

  • Jonathan McCrory

    Executive Artistic Director

    Total calculated
    $169,005
    From this org
    $154,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,159
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,846
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,034
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,125
    Filer's total
    $169,005

  • Barbara Koegel

    COO

    Total calculated
    $140,560
    From this org
    $131,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,185
    Hours/week
    35

  • Cleo Wade

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michelle Wilson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Alan Grier

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leslie Odom Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Zoe Kravitz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • De'Ara Balenger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anthony Roth Costanzo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tracey Ryans

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan Wiggins

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alia Jones-Harvey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Denise Bradley-Tyson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Darlene Bruce

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Michael F Lythcott

    Board Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Velma Banks

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linara Davidson

    Treasurer

    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. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $20,466,436
    Expenses
    $4,401,132
    Contributions
    $20,020,926
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,906,692
    Expenses
    $4,675,653
    Contributions
    $3,628,176
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,910,139
    Expenses
    $4,002,688
    Contributions
    $3,776,671
    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
    $5,134,746
    Expenses
    $2,652,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,847,848

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,230,682
    Expenses
    $1,437,946
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,967,352

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,481,727
    Expenses
    $1,311,335
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,069,070

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,254,874
    Expenses
    $1,081,147
    Assets (EOY)
    $740,844

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,234,193
    Expenses
    $932,212
    Assets (EOY)
    $640,834

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $704,362
    Expenses
    $731,539
    Assets (EOY)
    $224,621

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $777,160
    Expenses
    $815,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $224,621

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $804,724
    Expenses
    $657,036
    Assets (EOY)
    $256,753

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $867,527
    Expenses
    $587,188
    Assets (EOY)
    $329,553

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $695,429
    Expenses
    $640,534
    Assets (EOY)
    $402,936

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 11 November 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.