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WOOSTER GROUP INC

EIN 23-7022729 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$1,522,116
Expenses 2024
$1,729,014

Program services were 75.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A650
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 2075

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

THE WOOSTER GROUP, INC.'S PRIMARY MISSION IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW AND EXPERIMENTAL FORMS OF DRAMA AND THE INTERPLAY OF PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE WOOSTER GROUP, INC.'S PRIMARY MISSION IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW AND EXPERIMENTAL FORMS OF DRAMA AND THE INTERPLAY OF PERFORMING, MEDIA AND VISUAL ARTS.

  • THE WOOSTER GROUP, INC. IS A NEW YORK BASED THEATER COMPANY KNOWN WORLDWIDE FOR ITS GROUND-BREAKING EXPERIMENTS IN THEATER PERFORMANCE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF ELIZABETH LECOMPTE, THE GROUP HAS MADE MORE THAN 40 WORKS FOR THEATRE, DANCE, AND MEDIA, INCLUDING RUMSTICK ROAD (1977), L.D.S. (JUST THE HIGH POINTS) (1984), HOUSE/LIGHTS (1999), TO YOU, THE BIRDIE! (PHEDRE) (2002), HAMLET (2007), THE TOWN HALL AFFAIR (2017), THE B-SIDE (2017), THE MOTHER (2021) AND SYMPHONY OF RATS (2024). THE GROUP HAS TOURED INTERNATIONALLY TO EUROPE, RUSSIA, NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALIA. THE PERFORMING GARAGE AT 33 WOOSTER STREET IS THE GROUP'S PERMANENT HOME. THE ORGANIZATION OWNS AND OPERATES THE GARAGE AS A SHAREHOLDER IN THE GRAND STREET ARTISTS CO-OP, ESTABLISHED AS PART OF THE FLUXUS ART MOVEMENT IN THE 1960'S.

    Expenses $1,313,039

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.

  • Kate Valk

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $69,996
    From this org
    $65,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,996
    Hours/week
    40

  • Elizabeth Lecompte

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $52,767
    From this org
    $48,352
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,415
    Hours/week
    40

  • Paul Berman

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peyton Smith

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cynthia Hedstrom

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $62,823
    From this org
    $56,999
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,824
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jim Clayburgh

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $1,522,116
    Expenses
    $1,729,014
    Contributions
    $1,055,828
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,293,857
    Expenses
    $1,747,399
    Contributions
    $1,118,395
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,447,722
    Expenses
    $1,453,259
    Contributions
    $1,107,918
    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
    $1,762,379
    Expenses
    $1,347,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,485,926

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,368,215
    Expenses
    $1,159,240
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,314,732

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,373,917
    Expenses
    $1,311,367
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,123,548

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,608,095
    Expenses
    $1,525,559
    Assets (EOY)
    $681,580

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,693,796
    Expenses
    $1,634,113
    Assets (EOY)
    $643,642

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,368,234
    Expenses
    $1,422,925
    Assets (EOY)
    $551,871

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,167,119
    Expenses
    $1,323,069
    Assets (EOY)
    $642,714

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,198,215
    Expenses
    $1,564,619
    Assets (EOY)
    $746,313

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,299,433
    Expenses
    $1,622,680
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,133,549

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,432,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,640,858

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.