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UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE CO

EIN 95-4661312 PASADENA, CA

Revenue 2023
$1,404,235
Expenses 2023
$1,705,599

Program services were 67.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A650
Classification
2000
Street
300 S RAYMOND AVE STE 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 · 2023

Mission

The mission of The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company is to mentor, educate, and enrich youth in under-resourced communities through the creation of collaborative, original theatre.

  • The Organization now offers five intensive theatre-arts residency programs, including preventative theatre-arts education programs delivered in-class and after-school to Title 1 students, as well as to intergenerational groups of local families, and innovative intervention residencies for justice-system-engaged minors; a sixth program to provide isolated Los Angelenos with access to professional theatre experiences; as well as ongoing professional development services that amplify the Organizations healing-informed approach by cross-training educators, Probation Officers, and other youth-serving organizations. The Organizations suite of programs reached over 1,600 Los Angelenos in pre-pandemic years and still managed to serve nearly 1,000 annually during the pandemic (93% ages 9-19, 98% Black Indigenous and/or People of Color).

    Expenses $1,147,462

As filed on the 2023 return.

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.

  • ABIRAM BRIZUELA

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $115,260
    From this org
    $115,260
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JULISA ARCE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.67

  • GREGORY CARUSO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JESUS RODRIGUEZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • CARLOS LOPEZ ESTRADA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JULIO QUIJADA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.67

  • JOHN FREELAND

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.67

  • DECKER SADOWSKI

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.67

  • RYAN JONES

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.67

  • SARA SCOTT

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.67

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,404,235
    Expenses
    $1,705,599
    Contributions
    $1,334,197
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,453,235
    Expenses
    $1,705,599
    Contributions
    $1,383,197
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,749,492
    Expenses
    $1,267,796
    Contributions
    $1,680,907
    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
    $1,732,342
    Expenses
    $1,141,949
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,285,568

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,791,991
    Expenses
    $1,051,020
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,793,403

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,290,777
    Expenses
    $1,031,692
    Assets (EOY)
    $927,422

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $953,982
    Expenses
    $868,363
    Assets (EOY)
    $595,529

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $890,139
    Expenses
    $774,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $443,157

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $738,202
    Expenses
    $840,366
    Assets (EOY)
    $255,811

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,066,085
    Expenses
    $865,404
    Assets (EOY)
    $365,285

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $663,895
    Expenses
    $746,856
    Assets (EOY)
    $167,340

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $809,046
    Expenses
    $705,396
    Assets (EOY)
    $242,557

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $692,919
    Assets (EOY)
    $141,226

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.