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PLAYGROUND INC

EIN 94-3336399 BERKELEY, CA

Revenue 2024
$764,710
Expenses 2024
$752,199

Program services were 71.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A25
Classification
1000
Street
3286 ADELINE ST APT 9

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

MORE THAN JUST ANOTHER PLAY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, PLAYGROUND FOCUSES ON THE CREATION OF A TRUE THEATRE COMMUNITY BY NURTURING THE COLLABORATIVE PROCESS BETWEEN FIRST-TIME OR EARLY DEVELOPMENT PLAYWRIGHTS, AND ESTABLISHED, PROFESSIONAL ACTORS AND DIRECTORS

Activities or mission (Part I)

PLAYGROUND IS THE BAY AREA'S LEADING PLAYWRIGHT INCUBATOR. THE MISSION OF PLAYGROUND IS TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SIGNIFICANT NEW LOCAL VOICES FOR THE THEATRE.

  • MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUNDPRODUCE STAGED READINGS OF 72 ORIGINAL SHORT WORKS FROM MORE THAN 300 SUBMISSIONS FOR AN ONLINE AUDIENCE OF 2000+ WITH PARTICIPATION OF MORE THAN 360+ THEATRE ARTISTS (12 PERFORMANCES).PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKSPRODUCE A THREE-WEEK ONLINE NEW WORKS FESTIVAL CELEBRATING THE BEST NEW SHORT AND FULL-LENGTH PLAYS, INCLUDING BEST OF PLAYGROUND, AN ANNUAL SHOWCASE FEATURING A FULLY-PRODUCED EVENING-LENGTH PROGRAM OF THE BEST 6-7 SHORT WORKS FROM THE MONDAY NIGHT SERIES, STAGED READINGS OF NEW FULL-LENGTH PLAYS COMMISSIONED AND/OR DEVELOPED BY PLAYGROUND, AND PREMIERES OF TWO FULL-LENGTH PLAYS DEVELOPED IN PAST FESTIVALS, FOR AN AUDIENCE OF 1,200+ WITH PARTICIPATION OF NEARLY 100 THEATRE ARTISTS (12 PERFORMANCES).

    Expenses $537,389

  • COMMISSIONING INITIATIVE & PLAYWRIGHT RESIDENCY PROGRAMDEVELOP 12-16 NEW FULL-LENGTH PLAYS BY PLAYGROUND ALUMNI, INCLUDING 4-6 UNDER COMMISSION.PLAYGROUND YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECTPROVIDE PLAYWRITING CLASSES FOR BAY AREA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, FREE AND DISCOUNTED STUDENT ADMISSIONS TO PUBLIC PERFORMANCES, AND PRODUCE THE ANNUAL YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT, SHOWCASING THE BEST STUDENT WORKS AS PART OF THE PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL.PLAYGROUND SOLO PERFORMANCE FESTIVALSHOWCASE THE BEST NEW SOLO PERFORMANCES BY EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED SOLO ARTISTS OVER A THREE-WEEK FESTIVAL, FOR AN AUDIENCE OF 800+.

  • PLAYGROUND INNOVATOR INCUBATOR & INNOVATORS SHOWCASESUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT AND LAUNCH OF INNOVATIVE NEW THEATRE COMPANIES AND NEW WORKS THROUGH A YEAR-LONG INTENSIVE INCUBATOR AND MULTI-WEEK SHOWCASE, FEATURING FULL PRODUCTIONS AND PUBLIC SHOWINGS BY INCUBATOR PARTICIPANTS.TOTAL EXPENSES FOR ALL OF THE PROGRAMS NOTED ABOVE AMOUNTED TO $358,608.

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.

  • James A Kleinmann

    President

    Total calculated
    $110,000
    From this org
    $110,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Regina Guggenheim

    Chair Emeritus

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Nitin

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Ben Cain

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Stephanie Prentice

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Tanvi Agrawal

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Christian Wilburn

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Julia Brothers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Howard Ho

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Linda Amayo-Hassan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Rebecca Martinez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Kendall Philips

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jessica June Rowe

    Director

    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
    $764,710
    Expenses
    $752,199
    Contributions
    $622,778
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $584,541
    Expenses
    $726,796
    Contributions
    $472,389
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $776,313
    Expenses
    $699,052
    Contributions
    $652,502
    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
    $853,910
    Expenses
    $607,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $928,853

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $549,838
    Expenses
    $515,121
    Assets (EOY)
    $789,172

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $715,714
    Expenses
    $562,473
    Assets (EOY)
    $692,414

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $460,872
    Expenses
    $507,073
    Assets (EOY)
    $495,436

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $441,338
    Expenses
    $440,877
    Assets (EOY)
    $542,531

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $481,889
    Expenses
    $452,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $544,960

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $507,341
    Expenses
    $368,375
    Assets (EOY)
    $476,961

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $397,511
    Expenses
    $309,064
    Assets (EOY)
    $336,871

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $407,176
    Expenses
    $347,230
    Assets (EOY)
    $241,959

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $300,428
    Assets (EOY)
    $185,184

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.