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THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE

EIN 95-1509841 LAGUNA BEACH, CA

Revenue 2023
$4,791,054
Expenses 2023
$6,289,151

Program services were 64.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A65Z
Classification
3000
Street
606 LAGUNA CANYON RD

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).

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • LISA HALE

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JARED MATHIS

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF WINSTON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HARLEY BASSMAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JUSTIN MYERS

    BOARD NOMINATIONS & GOVERNANCE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEATHER ANNE CHALMERS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TORIN CUNNINGHAM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES HALE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOE HANAUER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARY JENKINS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BARBARA MACGILLIVRAY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEIDI MILLER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • XIAOHONG SHARON ROSE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RYAN SMITH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JORDY SPIEGEL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICHARD THOMAS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID ELLENSTEIN

    ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $162,539
    From this org
    $162,539
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,539
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $162,539

  • BILL KERLIN

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $100,404
    From this org
    $98,462
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,942
    Hours/week
    40

  • DENYS BAKER

    GENERAL MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $147,431
    From this org
    $139,194
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,237
    Hours/week
    40

  • VELTRIA ROMAN

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $116,955
    From this org
    $112,921
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,034
    Hours/week
    40

  • TERYLL SINDELL

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $138,751
    From this org
    $131,178
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,573
    Hours/week
    40

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,791,054
    Expenses
    $6,289,151
    Contributions
    $1,752,605
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,241,331
    Expenses
    $6,328,792
    Contributions
    $1,629,431
    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.

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.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • THEATER DIRECT INC.

    $3,585 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$212 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 10 September 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.