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CENTRAL WORKS

EIN 94-3188161 BERKELEY, CA

Revenue 2024
$282,412
Expenses 2024
$348,081

Program services were 67.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 9771

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

Central Works' mission if to develop and produce new plays for the theater building a community where our commitment to new plays and civic engagement flourish together. We are committed to social justice and the exploration of pressing political issues facing our world, while inviting our community to reflect, converse and connect in civic engagement.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Central Works' mission is to develop and produce new plays for the theater

  • In 2024, Central Works produced 3 world-premiere plays, 2 of which were developed in the Central Works Writers Workshop over the previous year. We continued producing our online podcast program,"The Yay" - a weekly podcast which interviews members of the local theater community. We also continued the Central Works Writers Workshop (two 12-week commissioning programs offered to 8 invited writers). 2 more plays developed in the Writers Workshop were selected for production for our 2025 season.

    Expenses $233,292 · Revenue $92,507

  • n/a

  • n/a

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.

  • Jan Zvaifler

    Board member, Company Co-director

    Total calculated
    $54,210
    From this org
    $54,210
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gary Graves

    Board Secretary, Company Co-director

    Total calculated
    $54,210
    From this org
    $54,210
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Poni Bepo

    Board Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Elisa Mikiten

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Patricia Milton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jeffrey Price

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sophie Rheinheimer

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Deborah Fink

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Viktoriia Stepanenko

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Craig Rice

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $282,412
    Expenses
    $348,081
    Contributions
    $189,904
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $257,795
    Expenses
    $336,086
    Contributions
    $163,108
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $389,901
    Expenses
    $296,459
    Contributions
    $312,773
    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
    $248,745
    Expenses
    $145,894
    Assets (EOY)
    $261,526

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $222,732
    Expenses
    $161,020
    Assets (EOY)
    $158,675

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

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.