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ARTS EXPRESS

EIN 86-0941657 TUCSON, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$1,301,106
Expenses 2024
$1,326,152

Program services were 96.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A250
Classification
1000
Street
5870 E BROADWAY BLVD STE 214

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

BY INTGRATING PERFORMING ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND MUSICAL THEATRE PRODUCTIONS, ART EXPRESS THEATRE OPENS UP THE WORLD OF THE ARTS TO ALL AGES. IT SERVES OVER 25,000 PEOPLE ANNUALLY THORUGH A CONTINUUM OF INTRODUCTORY TO ADVANCE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING AND ENGAGING AUDIENCE EXPERIENCES. PROGRAMS RANGE FROM YOUTH WORKSHOPS AND CAMPS TO LARGE-SCALE MUSICAL THREATE SHOWS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE ARTS EXPRESS THEATRE IS TO BUILD CHARACTER, STRENGHTEN COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATE CULTURE THROUGH THE POWER OF MUSICAL THEATRE.

  • BOASTING A LEGACY SPANNING 40 YEARS, ARTS EXPRESS THEATRE STRIVES TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF OUR AUDIENCES AND OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH THE POWER OF MUSICAL THEATRE. SERVING AS THE PREMIERE COMPANY REGIONALLY THAT IS DEDICATED TO FULL-SCALE BROADWAY-STYLE PRODUCTIONS, THE THEATRE PRODUCES 8 MAIN-STAGE SHOWS ANNUALLY AND IS A DESTINATION FOR AUDIENCES OF ALL AGES. THE COMPANY ALSO PAVES THE WAY FOR EMERGING TALENT TO GROW. OUR CONTINUUM OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS PROVIDES HIGH-QUALITY, ENGAGING EXPERIENCES FOR THEATRE STUDENTS. FROM EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS TO MAINSTAGE POWERHOUSES, ARTS EXPRESS THEATRE IS DEDICATED TO CONNECTING AND INSPIRING EVERY GENERATION OF THEATRE LOVER IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA AND BEYOND.

    Expenses $1,272,871 · Revenue $1,052,801

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.

  • Dan Cavanagh

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Matt Gentry

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Lendre Kearns

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12
  • Priscilla Margquez

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Diane Murphy

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Norie Nelson

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Susan Thibodeaux

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Scott Vaughan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Mario Di Vetta

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Regina Wills

    DIRECTOR

    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
    $1,301,106
    Expenses
    $1,326,152
    Contributions
    $237,349
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,092,491
    Expenses
    $1,298,541
    Contributions
    $199,967
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,018,192
    Expenses
    $861,878
    Contributions
    $294,687
    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
    $619,360
    Expenses
    $632,019
    Assets (EOY)
    $254,529
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $499,508
    Expenses
    $487,839
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,814
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $300,490
    Expenses
    $290,139
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,912
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $355,604
    Expenses
    $342,089
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,778
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $350,452
    Expenses
    $354,322
    Assets (EOY)
    $263

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.

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.