RATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

2000

Street

224 WAVERLY PL

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

• From our historic West Village theater since 1992, Rattlestick has produced the first plays and early works of some of todays leading voices, including Annie Baker (The Aliens, Obie for Best New American Play), Bailey Williams and Emma Horwitz (Two Sisters Find A Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods), and Diana Oh (mylingerieplay). We are proud to make Rattlestick a place where some of our nations most celebrated playwrights feel safe to test their new ideas, including Dael Orlandersmith (Until the Flood), Ethan Lipton (We Are Your Robots), and Samuel D. Hunter (Lewiston/Clarkson, nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play).Rattlesticks annual activities are guided by three main programming anchors that re-imagine how we make new work and focus on the unique process each artist needs: PRODUCTIONS, a lineup of new theatrically expansive Off-Broadway plays by innovative theatermakers that are deepened by incubator workshops which adhere to bespoke development timelines shaped by the project as it grows; FELLOWSHIPS, four distinct programs dedicated to serving emerging playwrights and directors along with a new Director-in-Residence initiative launched in FY26; and WORKING ARTIST INITIATIVES which include the new Waverly Performance Studio, a program designed to give our audiences access to artists in process, the Global Forms Theater Festival, a platform for international and immigrant theater artists to share in-progress work, and Rattle On Artist Salons, artist-forward cultivation engagements organized around sharing the behind-the-scenes development process with our community. These programs together serve approximately 10,000 audience members and 500 artists annually.

  Expenses $1,277,800

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.

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

  $2,062,240

  Expenses

  $1,858,208

  Contributions

  $1,758,275

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,106,000

  Expenses

  $1,363,950

  Contributions

  $963,300

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,637,600

  Expenses

  $1,437,782

  Contributions

  $2,490,837

  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

  $2,652,201

  Expenses

  $1,657,346

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,729,199

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,751,808

  Expenses

  $902,937

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,879,319

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,686,591

  Expenses

  $1,211,583

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,120,381

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,203,826

  Expenses

  $1,213,317

  Assets (EOY)

  $566,233

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,043,093

  Expenses

  $953,587

  Assets (EOY)

  $474,751

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,206,659

  Expenses

  $799,424

  Assets (EOY)

  $455,805

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $673,466

  Expenses

  $658,960

  Assets (EOY)

  $34,767

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,179,434

  Expenses

  $1,226,151

  Assets (EOY)

  $78,539

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,074,963

  Expenses

  $2,336,902

  Assets (EOY)

  $72,107

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,990,921

  Assets (EOY)

  $473,361

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

• LARK THEATRE COMPANY INC

  $110,519

  2022 · grant

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $105,890

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $66,360

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $51,540

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC

  $48,000

  2022 · New York Theatre Program

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $27,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $20,000

  2024 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $15,000

  2023 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• COLUMBUS JEWISH FOUNDATION

  $12,000

  2023 · Arts, Cultural & Humanties

• COLUMBUS JEWISH FOUNDATION

  $12,000

  2022 · Arts, Cultural & Humanities

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

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