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MODERN WARRIOR LIVE

EIN 82-2092292 CLEVELAND, OH

Revenue 2024
$503,699
Expenses 2024
$455,073

Program services were 88.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 5683

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

MODERN WARRIOR LIVE BUILDS BRIDGES BETWEEN VETERAN AND CIVILIAN COMMUNITITES THROUGH LIVE PERFOMANCES, COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOPS, THE SHARING OF VETERAN STORIES AND DISCUSSIONS. THROUGH HIGHLIGHTING STORIES OF POST- TRAUMATIC GROWTH, MODERN WARRIOR LIVE WORKS TO HELP DESTIGMATIZE OUR VETERANS BY FOCUSING ON THE SHARED HUMAN EXPERIENCE, WHILE PROVIDING HOPE AND A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING ACROSS COMMUNITIES.

  • CREATED BY INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED MUSICIAN DOMINICK FARINACCI AND US ARMY VETERAN JAYMES POLING, THE CENTERPIECE OF OUR NATIONAL 501(C)(3) NONPROFIT IS OUR TOURING PRODUCTION THAT CHRONICLES THE STORY OF U.S. ARMY VETERAN JAYMES POLING, HIS JOURNEY THROUGH THREE DEPLOYMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN, AND HIS SUBSEQUENT TRANSITION BACK HOME. NARRATED BY POLING, THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PRODUCTION WEAVES TOGETHER HIS STORY WITH A CAST OF WORLD-CLASS ARTISTS IN MULTIPLE GENRES LED BY INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED TRUMPETER DOMINICK FARINACCI. IT SHARES A PERSONAL AND EMOTIONAL JOURNEY OF THE CHALLENGES OF MILITARY SERVICE AND THE EXPERIENCE VETERANS FACE WHEN THEY RETURN HOME, AND IT IS A CATALYST FOR MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH. WITH MORE THAN 150 PERFORMANCES TO-DATE, MODERN WARRIOR LIVE HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, THE 26TH U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE GENERAL JAMES MATTIS AND HAS BEEN SHOWCASED AT AMAZON HEADQUARTERS AND AT THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR MENTAL WELLBEING CONFERENCE OPENING FOR BREN BROWN. VETERAN COMMUNITIES REALIZING THE IMPACT OUR PRIMARY PRODUCTION HAS HAD ON COMMUNITIES, WE BUILT A PROGRAM THAT OFFERS PARTICIPANTS A PLATFORM TO PROCESS AND SHARE THEIR INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES USING THE UNIQUE STORYTELLING MODEL WE CREATED, WEAVING TOGETHER PERSONAL NARRATIVES, MUSIC, AND FILM. EACH STORYTELLER IS SUPPORTED BY OUR MODERN WARRIOR ARTISTIC TEAM LED BY DOMINICK FARINACCI, AND CULMINATES IN A FILMED LIVE PERFORMANCE. WORK & REENTRY WE'VE WELL-ESTABLISHED OUR ORGANIZATION WITHIN THE VETERAN AND MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITIES. AS WE'VE BROUGHT THESE STORIES TO COMMUNITIES, WE BEGAN TO SEE THROUGH LINES THAT CONNECTED VETERAN STORIES TO RETURNING CITIZENS INVOLVED IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. CHAMPIONING THE BELIEF THAT EVERY INDIVIDUAL, REGARDLESS OF THEIR PAST, HAS THE CAPACITY FOR GROWTH, RESILIENCE, AND REDEMPTION, WE'VE EXPANDED THE PROGRAM BEYOND VETERANS TO INCLUDE FORMERLY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS. "STIGMA OFTEN CREATES BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION THAT LEAVE SO MANY OF US FEELING ISOLATED AND UNABLE TO SHARE OUR STRUGGLES. IN DOING THIS, WE RISK FURTHER SEPARATING FROM THE COMMUNITIES THAT CAN HELP US HEAL," SAYS JAYMES POLING. "WITH THE MODERN WARRIOR EXPERIENCE PROGRAM, WE STRIVE TO TEAR DOWN THOSE BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION, ALLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO SHARE THE UNFILTERED REALITY OF THEIR JOURNEY, AND IN DOING SO CARVE A PATH FOR OTHERS HOPING FOR A BETTER TOMORROW," SAYS DOMINICK FARINACCI.

    Expenses $402,197 · Revenue $206,725

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.

  • DOMINICK FARINACCI

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $42,000
    From this org
    $42,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30
  • JAYMES POLING

    EXECUTIVE VI

    Total calculated
    $48,000
    From this org
    $48,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • SCOTT BALOUGH

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • AL SIKES

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • DEBRA PRINCIPI

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • LOREN SCHOENBERRG

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • STACY BANKS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • WALTER BOOKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • DANIELLE KRAKTORA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • PATRICK PALMIERI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • TERRY STEWART

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • DR JERRY SUE THORNTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $503,699
    Expenses
    $455,073
    Contributions
    $296,974
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $403,676
    Expenses
    $325,070
    Contributions
    $245,869
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $227,526
    Expenses
    $284,528
    Contributions
    $141,672
    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
    $116,497
    Expenses
    $64,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,478
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $48,189
    Expenses
    $64,668
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,347
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $165,153
    Expenses
    $157,748
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,177
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $234,540
    Expenses
    $213,998
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,437

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2017

Tax period
1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
Principal officer
Jaymes Poling
Mailing address
PO Box 5683Cleveland OH 44101
Website
www.modernwarriorlive.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related partnerships on its 2022 return

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.