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THALIAN HALL CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC

EIN 23-7209601 WILMINGTON, NC

Revenue 2024
$4,332,042
Expenses 2024
$2,399,269

Program services were 72.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A60
Classification
1200
Street
310 CHESTNUT 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

To present a broad range of educational, entertainment, and cultural programs; to be a major regional resource for quality spaces, equipment and services; and to preserve the symbol of Wilmington's cultural heritage for future generations

  • The organization was established to encourage and assist in the preservation and restoration of Thalian Hall, an historic theatre owned by the City of Wilmington, and to promote the arts in the area.

    Expenses $1,728,641 · Revenue $1,609,425

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.

  • Terry Espy

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Richard Trubia

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Shannon Sandlin

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Charky Armstrong

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Donna Cameron

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Robert Erb

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Hank Estep

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Christa Faison

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Annette Freeman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Travis Gilbert

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Michael Goins

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Margaret Haynes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Annamaria Lookman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Laurence Nadeau

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Sandra Ray

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Robert Sherman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Shane Fernando

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $158,679
    From this org
    $158,625
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $54
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $148,000
    Bonus
    $9,246
    Other
    $1,379
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $54
    Filer's total
    $158,679

  • Greg Wessel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Tina Williamson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Rob Zapple

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ronna Zimmer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jacki Booth

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Alisa Harris

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • David Joyner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,332,042
    Expenses
    $2,399,269
    Contributions
    $2,666,408
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,982,751
    Expenses
    $1,878,427
    Contributions
    $544,122
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,704,616
    Expenses
    $1,552,710
    Contributions
    $417,980
    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
    $2,399,584
    Expenses
    $1,642,543
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,750,747

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $771,469
    Expenses
    $839,556
    Assets (EOY)
    $894,635

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,279,086
    Expenses
    $1,305,817
    Assets (EOY)
    $860,717

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,349,904
    Expenses
    $1,323,860
    Assets (EOY)
    $835,738

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,356,173
    Expenses
    $1,372,732
    Assets (EOY)
    $795,831

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,327,046
    Expenses
    $1,376,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $829,077

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,359,782
    Expenses
    $1,316,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $871,296

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

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