THEATRE Y

EIN 20-8459362 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2025: $286,932
Expenses 2025: $0

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A65
Classification: 1000
Street: 3611 W CERMAK RD

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

CREATE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN DIVERSE ARTISTS SEEKING MUTUAL GROWTH THROUGH COLLABORATION.

1) PRODUCED LIVE PRODUCTIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR FOR AND IN THE HISTORICALLY UNDERSERVED CHICAGO COMMUNITY OF NORTH LAWNDALE.2) YOUTH PROGRAM PAIRED INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS WITH KIDS FROM THE COMMUNITY TO DEVELOP A CURIOUSITY AND UNDERSTANDING OF A CAREER IN THEATRE ARTS. WE DEVELOPED A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH A LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL WHERE WE HOSTED AN AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM. STUDENTS WE WORKED WITH HAD THE OPPROTUNITY TO PERFORM AND/OR HAVE THEIR ARTWORK FEATURED IN OUR PRODUCTIONS THAT YEAR. 3) SALON SERIES ESTABLISHED A COMMUNAL GATHERING PLACE IN RESPONSE TO THE COMMUNITY'S REQUEST TO HAVE MORE PLACES TO GATHER RECREATIONALLY.

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

Steve Bynum

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Reshorna Fitzpatrick

Vice President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Karen Okwu

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Michael Sansone

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jabari Ellis

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Kevin Limbeck

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Wendy Siegel

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Trish VanderBeke

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Robert Price

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Akinbode Akinbiyi

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Melissa Lorraine

Executive Dir.

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

40

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

$286,932

Expenses

$0

Contributions

$286,932

Grants paid

$0
2025

Revenue

$1,501,830

Expenses

$418,609

Contributions

$1,417,191

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$408,701

Expenses

$354,002

Contributions

$339,500

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$897,522

Expenses

$229,672

Contributions

$801,520

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$162,543

Expenses

$166,094

Contributions

$141,058

Grants paid

not reported

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$286,932	$0	$286,932	$0
2025	$1,501,830	$418,609	$1,417,191	$0
2024	$408,701	$354,002	$339,500	$0
2023	$897,522	$229,672	$801,520	$0
2022	$162,543	$166,094	$141,058	not reported

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

$143,234

Expenses

$70,952

Assets (EOY)

$134,274
2020 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$81,126

Expenses

$65,571

Assets (EOY)

$61,222
2019 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$120,226

Expenses

$107,320

Assets (EOY)

$47,208
2018 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$58,621

Expenses

$66,954

Assets (EOY)

$5,593
2017 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$63,308

Expenses

$61,680

Assets (EOY)

$13,330
2016 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$88,629

Expenses

$77,693

Assets (EOY)

$11,314
2015 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$31,891

Expenses

$28,616

Assets (EOY)

$378
2014 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$44,333

Expenses

$49,120

Assets (EOY)

$257
2013 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$27,615

Expenses

$28,456

Assets (EOY)

$1,890
2012 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$36,751

Expenses

$43,867

Assets (EOY)

$2,731

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990-EZ	$143,234	$70,952	$134,274
2020	990-EZ	$81,126	$65,571	$61,222
2019	990-EZ	$120,226	$107,320	$47,208
2018	990-EZ	$58,621	$66,954	$5,593
2017	990-EZ	$63,308	$61,680	$13,330
2016	990-EZ	$88,629	$77,693	$11,314
2015	990-EZ	$31,891	$28,616	$378
2014	990-EZ	$44,333	$49,120	$257
2013	990-EZ	$27,615	$28,456	$1,890
2012	990-EZ	$36,751	$43,867	$2,731

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2008

Tax period: 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
Principal officer: Norman Kapp
Mailing address: 2 N 101 Linda LaneCarol Stream IL 60188

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 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

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

$500,000

2024 CULTURE & ARTS
THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

$350,000

2022 General Operating Support, support of capital campaign to purchase building at 3611 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, support for Theatre Y Building Project
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

$200,000

2023 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
BRIGHT PROMISES FOUNDATION

$20,000

2022 FAIRNESS, ACCESS, INCLUSION, AND RESILIENCY INITIATIVE
LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION

$10,000

2024 Powering the Arts Program
THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

$10,000

2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC

$10,000

2023 ILLINOIS CORONAVIRUS FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS

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.