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GOLDEN THREAD PRODUCTIONS

EIN 75-3009451 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$374,921
Expenses 2024
$645,955

Program services were 64.9% 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
1695 18TH ST C101 ANNEX

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

Golden Thread Productions mission is to produce passionate and provocative playsfrom or about the Middle East including its global diaspora - that celebrate themultiplicity of its perspectives and identities while serving as a developmentalcatalyst and vibrant artistic home to artists at various stages of their career.Golden Thread brings the Middle East to the American stage, creating treasuredcultural experiences for audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Golden Thread Productions is the first American theatre company devoted to plays from or about the Middle East Golden Thread's signature programs include ReOrient Festival and Forum, development and production of full-length plays, New Threads staged reading series, Golden Thread Fairytale Players theatre for young audiences, and an annual Women's Day event.

  • FULL-LENGTH PLAYS AND NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT (Mainstage and New Threads) In addition to the production of full-length plays, Golden Thread ensures the discovery and development of new playwrights and plays through commissions and development programs such as readings and workshops. New Threads is an annual staged reading and workshop series that engages its audience in the process of playmaking and allows writers of Middle Eastern and non-Middle Eastern descent an authentic and supportive space to develop work about the Middle East. Many of the New Threads plays continue on to receive main stage productions.

    Expenses $340,518 · Revenue $191,371

  • COMMUNITY OUTREACH EVENTS (Womens Day, General Artistic, Fiscal Sponsorship) Golden Thread celebrates International Womens Day each year with What Do the Women Say?, a curated evening highlighting the works of Middle Eastern women artists. We also provide fiscal sponsorship and occasional artistic support for small projects to Middle Eastern artists.

    Expenses $73,197 · Revenue $12,700

  • REORIENT FESTIVAL AND FORUM (ReOrient) The ReOrient Festival of Short Plays was inaugurated in 1999 to present alternative perspectives of the Middle East and to showcase the multiplicity of stories, voices and styles from the region and has since becomes Golden Threads most recognized and celebrated program. This ambitious festival, now presented biennially, turns San Francisco into a Mecca for innovative, spirited, and thought-provoking theatre from and about the Middle East. Alongside Middle Eastern voices, ReOrient also features the work of non-Middle Eastern playwrights. In 2009, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the festival, Golden Thread has organized the ReOrient Forum, a weekend-long convening in San Francisco aimed at expanding the dialogue on theatre, the Middle East, and current hot topics that illuminate the regions relationship with the US.

    Expenses $3,453

  • YOUTH OUTREACH (Fairytale Players) A portion of Golden Threads programming engages and educates youth and family audiences about the Middle East. Golden Thread Fairytale Players create and tour original productions based on Middle Eastern fables and childrens stories. Inspired by popular performance traditions in the Middle East, the performances employ epic storytelling, physical theatre and circus arts techniques and tour schools, libraries, and festivals around the Bay Area.

    Expenses $1,811

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Sahar Assaf

    Exec Artist Dir

    Total calculated
    $72,000
    From this org
    $72,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nora El Samahy

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Atwood

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Humaira Ghilzai

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mona Masri

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nancy Chemaly

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michelle Mulholland

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Babak Sani

    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
    $374,921
    Expenses
    $645,955
    Contributions
    $304,306
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $491,217
    Expenses
    $665,679
    Contributions
    $437,776
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $664,559
    Expenses
    $611,606
    Contributions
    $611,218
    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
    $548,500
    Expenses
    $347,761
    Assets (EOY)
    $771,709

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $812,960
    Expenses
    $331,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $606,534

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $554,442
    Expenses
    $482,017
    Assets (EOY)
    $92,107

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $381,076
    Expenses
    $380,513
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,885

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $406,673
    Expenses
    $356,553
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,364

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $288,317
    Expenses
    $297,951
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,855

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $282,031
    Expenses
    $338,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,014

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $209,684
    Expenses
    $239,860
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,703

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $287,175
    Expenses
    $233,213
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,487

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $152,510
    Expenses
    $205,903
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,948

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