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DEAF SPOTLIGHT

EIN 27-5059109 SEATTLE, WA

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Revenue 2024
$353,939
Expenses 2024
$467,664

Program services were 44.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 20191

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

DEAF SPOTLIGHT INSPIRES AND SHOWCASES DEAF CULTURE AND SIGN LANGUAGES THROUGH THE ARTS.

  • BP FELLOWSHIP: DEAF SPOTLIGHT IS THE FISCAL AGENCY FOR TOPHER AVILA, A FELLOW WHO RECEIVED A 3 YEAR GRANT OF 70K PER YEAR FROM BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY. THIS WAS YEAR 2 OF 3.

    Expenses $65,959

  • SEATTLE DEAF FILM FESTIVAL - A FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM FEATURING 44 FILMS FROM 11 COUNTRIES ON, FOR AND BY DEAF, DEAFBLIND, DEAFDISABLED AND HARD OF HEARING FILMMAKERS AT NORTHWEST FILM FORUM.

    Expenses $44,411 · Revenue $55,866

  • DEAF SPOTLIGHTS PRESENTS - A THEATRICAL PROGRAM SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL WHICH WE SHOWCASED 6 ORIGINAL SHORT PLAYS BY DEAF PLAYWRIGHTS AND FEATURED LOCAL AND OUT OF STATE TALENT AT 12TH AVE ARTS STUDIO THEATRE

    Expenses $32,780 · Revenue $51,500

  • SMALLER PROJECTS AND EVENTS

    Expenses $65,858 · Grants $7,266

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Michael Anthony

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Candace Williams

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Bruce Visser

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Aly Boote

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jennifer Harris

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Patty Liang

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $84,739
    From this org
    $84,739
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Carol Brown

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Ryan Schlecht

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

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
    $353,939
    Expenses
    $467,664
    Contributions
    $334,893
    Grants paid
    $7,266
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $695,527
    Expenses
    $336,536
    Contributions
    $675,747
    Grants paid
    $7,700
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $235,937
    Expenses
    $188,118
    Contributions
    $225,841
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $111,270
    Expenses
    $130,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,189

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $111,270
    Expenses
    $159,224
    Assets (EOY)
    $95,724

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $135,676
    Expenses
    $61,384
    Assets (EOY)
    $138,698

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $101,143
    Expenses
    $79,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,406

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $100,165
    Expenses
    $79,954
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,718

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $96,580
    Expenses
    $101,716
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,507

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Patty Liang
Mailing address
PO BOX 20191Seattle WA 98102
Website
www.deafspotlight.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2014, reinstated 15 May 2014.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.