- Revenue 2024
- $782,248
- Expenses 2024
- $829,321
Program services were 79.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A65
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 134 CANNON 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
See Schedule O
Activities or mission (Part I)
To create exceptional theatre experiences that enlive thought, ignite dialogue and expand consciousness
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Refer to Schedule O
Expenses $661,776 · Revenue $207,165
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.
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Sharon Graci
Artistic Director
- Total calculated
- $85,663
- From this org
- $85,663
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40 + 40 related
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Michael Culler
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
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Amy Gaffney
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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David Smalls
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Liza Elsner
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Bea Wray
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Josh Wilhoit
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Brad Erickson
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
Stephanie Hunt
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
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James M Ward
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $782,248
- Expenses
- $829,321
- Contributions
- $571,941
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $713,069
- Expenses
- $755,930
- Contributions
- $466,646
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $670,624
- Expenses
- $630,695
- Contributions
- $377,343
- 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
- $487,182
- Expenses
- $543,997
- Assets (EOY)
- $164,150
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $334,014
- Expenses
- $299,329
- Assets (EOY)
- $157,044
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $532,962
- Expenses
- $388,145
- Assets (EOY)
- $127,156
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $378,818
- Expenses
- $359,756
- Assets (EOY)
- $59,570
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $437,695
- Expenses
- $428,727
- Assets (EOY)
- $10,516
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $345,502
- Expenses
- $402,914
- Assets (EOY)
- $16,919
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $357,762
- Expenses
- $415,681
- Assets (EOY)
- $39,397
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $379,459
- Expenses
- $331,975
- Assets (EOY)
- $100,522
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $315,383
- Expenses
- $269,514
- Assets (EOY)
- $54,207
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $239,440
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,019
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
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$28,760
2023 PURE Theatre is seeking funding for Haut Gap Middle School and St. Johns High School Youth Companies, an after-school theatre program offered in partnership with Communities in Schools. The program is centered around the development and growth associated with the stages of building a live performance. PURE Theatre's Youth Company is a comprehensive program designed to empower and showcase the unique skill sets of students through the process of live performance. The program aims to foster creativity, build confidence, and cultivate an ensemble mindset among students while providing an enriching experience in the performing arts. Through participation in the program, students hone crucial life skills, including the ability to think creatively, be responsible to oneself and others, work in a group to achieve common goals, and, through PURE's methodology of scene study, understand human motivation and behavior better. The program will begin with one-time workshops being held at the start
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2023 GENERAL OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
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2024 GENERAL OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
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2024 ARTS
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2022 GENERAL OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$16,455
2023 PURE is requesting $11,000 in funding for PURE Youth Companies (PYC) at Haut Gap Middle School. PYC is an after-school theatre training program offered through our dynamic partnership with Communities in Schools (CIS). PURE has already received funds from the South Carolina Arts Commission and the Coastal Community Foundation but requires additional funds to create this intensive program that provides students with creative outlets when no other arts education experiences are currently available. PURE Youth Companies are centered around the principle of live performance of a play (vs a pedagogy structured around theatre exercises, non-scripted improvisation, stand-alone monologues, and/or scene work). PURE Youth Companies are intensive, theatre training programs that expose students to in-depth instruction throughout the school year. Each semester, 20 to 25 students meet twice per week for 16 weeks, to learn the art and craft of acting while rehearsing a play. The class culminates in
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2023 ARTS
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SOUTH CAROLINA HUMANITES COUNCIL
$13,500
2023 ARTS EVENT
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$11,000
2022 After school theatre training program offered in partnership with Communities in Schools (CIS) that provides students with creative outlets when no other arts education experiences are available. Training program structured around the rehearsal and performance of a play. Each semester, 20 to 25 students meet twice a week for 16 weeks culminating in live performance for family, friends, teachers and invited guests. Performance is also simulcast.
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 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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.