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THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC

EIN 45-4815944 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$447,079
Expenses 2024
$705,035

Program services were 67.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A65
Classification
1000
Street
758 8TH AVENUE SUITE 300

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

TONYC WORKS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITH SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS AND CITY AGENCIES TO CREATE THEATRE TROUPES WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO FACE PRESSING SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, HEALTH, AND HUMAN RIGHTS INJUSTICES.

  • THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED IS AN INTERACTIVE, PHYSICAL AND PLAYFUL TOOL USED TO SHOWCASE DISCRIMINATION. COMMUNITY ACTORS, DIRECTORS, PLAYWRIGHTS, DESIGNERS, AND PRODUCERS CREATE PLAYS INSPIRED BY REAL LIFE STRUGGLES.

    Expenses $475,683 · Revenue $46,541

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.

  • Sulu Leonimm

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $80,641
    From this org
    $69,530
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,111
    Hours/week
    35

  • Josh Van Kirk

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katy Rubin

    TREASURER (STARTING FROM OCT 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sam Brandt

    TREASURER (RESIGNED SEPT 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elizabeth Bangura

    DEPUTY TREASURER (RESIGNED DEC 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Vincent Laropoli

    SECRETARY (STARTING FROM OCT 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Juncal Plazaola Castao

    SECRETARY (RESIGNED JUNE 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mikayla Knight

    DEPUTY SECRETARY (RESIGNED MARCH 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Adam Coy

    MEMBER (RESIGNED OCT 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Pablo Hernandez Basulto

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Benjamin Solotaire

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eleanor Dickenson

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ellie Bell

    MEMBER

    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
    $447,079
    Expenses
    $705,035
    Contributions
    $396,540
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $920,179
    Expenses
    $845,921
    Contributions
    $861,247
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $727,876
    Expenses
    $802,848
    Contributions
    $669,101
    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
    $805,028
    Expenses
    $800,396
    Assets (EOY)
    $744,300

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $783,273
    Expenses
    $891,009
    Assets (EOY)
    $838,063

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $680,120
    Expenses
    $563,732
    Assets (EOY)
    $369,629

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $408,513
    Expenses
    $386,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $175,390

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $312,114
    Expenses
    $236,617
    Assets (EOY)
    $136,404

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $150,162
    Expenses
    $131,655
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,706

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $86,690
    Expenses
    $109,709
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,801

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $73,015
    Expenses
    $48,754
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,261

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.