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TAPROOT THEATRE

EIN 91-0971237 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2025
$4,071,476
Expenses 2025
$4,383,793

Program services were 80.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A650
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 30946

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 · 2025

Mission

TAPROOT THEATRE COMPANY TELLS STORIES OF HOPE, SERVING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST THROUGH LIVE THEATRE AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. TAPROOT THEATRE VALUES FAITH, RESPECTS PEOPLE, AND CELEBRATES THEATRE.

  • TAPROOT IS DEDICATED TO CREATING QUALITY ART THAT UNITES PEOPLE THROUGH THE UNIQUE POWER OF LIVE STORYTELLING AND THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT WE BUILD AND NURTURE. STRATEGICALLY LOCATED AS ONE OF THE LARGEST THEATRES OUTSIDE SEATTLE'S DOWNTOWN ARTS CORRIDOR, TAPROOT STRIVES TO BECOME THE THEATRE OF CHOICE FOR NORTH SEATTLE/NORTHWEST KING COUNTY. TAPROOT GENERATES A SHARED SENSE OF COMMUNITY OF HOPE FOR BOTH AUDIENCES AND ARTISTS WITH STORIES THAT AMPLIFY THE HOPE, COURAGE, SELF-SACRIFICE, LOVE AND REDEMPTION IN OUR WORLD. SINCE RESUMING LIVE IN-PERSON PRODUCTIONS ON THE MAINSTAGE IN NOVEMBER 2021 AFTER AN 18-MONTH DELAY BROUGHT ON BY THE PANDEMIC, TAPROOT HAS PRODUCED A GAMUT OF PRODUCTIONS RANGING FROM CLASSICAL DRAMA TO MODERN COMEDY TO REGIONAL PREMIERE MUSICALS, ALL SHARING THE COMMON THEME OF HOPE.MAKING THEATRE IS VERY DIFFERENT TODAY THAN IT WAS BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, BUT WE ADAPT AND ADJUST CONTINUALLY TO TRY TO GET IT RIGHT. IT'S WORTH IT. WE BELIEVE THAT STORIES, BEAUTIFULLY REALIZED BY A SKILLED ARTISTIC TEAM, HAVE THE POWER TO MOVE PEOPLE, INSPIRING THEM TOWARDS EMPATHY, COMMUNITY, GRACE, GROWTH, AND LOVE OF NEIGHBOR.TAPROOT THEATRE COMPANY PERFORMED 5 PRODUCTIONS IN ITS MAINSTAGE SEASON, PLUS 1 PRODUCTIONS IN THE ISAAC STUDIO, AND THE MAINSTAGE HOLIDAY PRODUCTION. TOTAL ATTENDANCE EXCEEDED 42,000 FOR THE PRODUCTIONS.

    Expenses $2,752,491 · Revenue $1,735,321

  • EDUCATION AND OUTREACH: THE TAPROOT THEATRE'S ROAD COMPANY CONSISTS OF 5 ACTORS WHO PERFORM SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING PLAYS AT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS. THESE PLAYS FOCUS ON BULLYING PREVENTION, ACCEPTING DIFFERENCES, AND EMPATHY AND EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT. THE TAPROOT THEATRE ACTING STUDIO CREATES A NURTURING ENVIRONMENT TO HELP YOUTH AND ADULT STUDENTS DEVELOP THEIR UNIQUE THEATRICAL TALENTS AND GIFTS. DURING 2025, THE ACTING STUDIO OFFERED CLASSES AND RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITIES TO MORE THAN 400 STUDENTS.

    Expenses $776,343 · Revenue $388,822

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.

  • KAREN LUND

    PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $133,658
    From this org
    $122,848
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,810
    Hours/week
    40

  • DAVID WOODWARD

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHELBY PARSONS

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • REBECCA BRITTLE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MATTHEW GARCIA

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PATRICIA CRAIG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARAH FELDMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOUG FREYBURG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANIEL ICHINAGA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM RENGSTORF

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DWIGHT SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN STECKLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAN VOETMANN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GRACE YOO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOE AZEGAMI-HYER

    FINANCE MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $33,442
    From this org
    $33,442
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,071,476
    Expenses
    $4,383,793
    Contributions
    $1,836,974
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,647,430
    Expenses
    $3,881,662
    Contributions
    $1,775,374
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,604,895
    Expenses
    $4,000,874
    Contributions
    $1,007,346
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,388,700
    Expenses
    $3,601,484
    Contributions
    $2,302,899
    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

  • 2024 · 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
    $2,609,460
    Expenses
    $1,763,697
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,891,610

  • 2021 · 990-T

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

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,900,522
    Expenses
    $1,770,244
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,304,135

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,900,522
    Expenses
    $1,770,244
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,304,135

  • 2020 · 990-T

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

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,727,403
    Expenses
    $2,876,680
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,311,406

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,599,961
    Expenses
    $2,885,464
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,628,704

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,622,970
    Expenses
    $2,905,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,768,658

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.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.