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RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC

EIN 39-1783607 MILWAUKEE, WI

Revenue 2024
$847,708
Expenses 2024
$828,114

Program services were 77.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A650
Classification
2100
Street
5TH FLOOR

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

RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS (RTWS) MISSION IS TO CREATE MOVING THEATER THAT CONNECTS WITH OUR SHARED SENSE OF BEING HUMAN. WE ARE DEDICATED TO PROMOTING THE WORK OF WOMEN ONSTAGE AND OFF. RTW IS MILWAUKEES ONLY WOMEN-FOUNDED, WOMEN-RUN PROFESSIONAL THEATER COMPANY DEDICATED TO IMPROVING GENDER PARITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CREATE COMPELLING THEATER FOCUSING ON THE EXPLORATION OF WOMEN AND OFFERING PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO LOCAL EMERGING THEATER ARTISTS.

  • CREATE COMPELLING THEATER FOCUSING ON THE EXPLORATION OF WOMEN AND OFFERING PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO LOCAL EMERGING THEATER ARTISTS.

    Expenses $637,691 · Revenue $174,004

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.

  • LISA RASMUSSEN

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $70,279
    From this org
    $68,901
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,378
    Hours/week
    40

  • SUZAN FETE

    ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $33,713
    From this org
    $33,052
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $661
    Hours/week
    40

  • GINNY FINN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAURA ARNOW

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SOFIA ASCORBE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY ELIZABETH ALVAREZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GEORGE DIONISOPOULOS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSAN FRAUTSCHI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATTI KEATING KAHN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOANNE LIPO ZOVIC

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELE MATTHAI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • N LYNNETTE MCNEELY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VIVIAN MOLLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JODI RISTAU

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BETH WEIRICK

    DIRECTOR

    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
    $847,708
    Expenses
    $828,114
    Contributions
    $652,441
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $816,264
    Expenses
    $859,965
    Contributions
    $596,101
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $825,926
    Expenses
    $802,764
    Contributions
    $697,810
    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
    $941,662
    Expenses
    $745,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $717,047

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $590,431
    Expenses
    $579,144
    Assets (EOY)
    $503,061

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $662,751
    Expenses
    $626,020
    Assets (EOY)
    $497,507

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $817,684
    Expenses
    $637,747
    Assets (EOY)
    $481,095

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $611,535
    Expenses
    $661,831
    Assets (EOY)
    $295,360

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $588,525
    Expenses
    $599,880
    Assets (EOY)
    $326,669

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $641,231
    Expenses
    $591,383
    Assets (EOY)
    $352,439

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $568,396
    Expenses
    $535,351
    Assets (EOY)
    $305,172

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $498,340
    Expenses
    $466,163
    Assets (EOY)
    $288,443

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $493,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $202,848

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