2026-05-15T12:18:38-04:00 2025-12-31 990EZ 2025-01-01 333585530 Fright Town Eastside FRIG 9512339708 1207 225TH AVE NE Sammamish WA 980746844 Thomas Devine Co-Treasurer 9512339708 2026-05-15 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X X https : frighttowneastside. org X X 54932 X 14054 26 0 40852 23068 17784 0 31864 20000 750 2302 0 1871 24923 6941 75762 82703 X 65762 72703 10000 10000 75762 82703 75762 82703 Fright Town Eastside builds community on the Eastside of King County WA through participatory arts and theater programming including an all-volunteer community haunted house improvisational theater and arts workshops for teens and adult community members and grants in support of other youth-serving and community charities. All-volunteer community haunted house. Fright Town Eastside operated its all-volunteer community haunted house in Sammamish WA drawing participants and audiences from across Sammamish Issaquah Redmond and Bellevue. The haunted house is the organizations signature public program and primary fundraising vehicle. Admission to the haunted house is open to the public; supporters make voluntary contributions on-site or online. During the 2025 season more than 300 individuals attended the haunted house without making any contribution demonstrating the voluntary nature of donor support. The organization charges no admission fee sells no concessions conducts no gaming or raffles and offers no goods or services of fair market value in exchange for contributions. Expenses funded venue rent construction supplies marketing and outreach insurance food for volunteers and event-related operating costs. Direct event expenses are reported on Form 990-EZ Line 6c and detailed on Schedule G 0 25370 Improv theater and arts workshops. Fright Town Eastside delivered six improvisational theater training sessions for teens and adult community members and four arts and crafts workshops focused on costume set and prop design. All workshops were led by volunteers and offered as community programming aligned with the organizations mission of participatory arts education. 0 1030 Grants to youth community charities. Fright Town Eastside granted 20,000 to other community charities in 2025: 2,000 to Sammamish Friends EIN 45-4396265 3020 Issaquah-Pine Lake Rd SE #559 Sammamish WA 98075 to support their community Mud Run fundraising event; 1,500 to Friends of Sammamish Youth EIN 93-1953310 1818 211th Way NE Sammamish WA 98074; 1,500 to Youth Eastside Services EIN 91-0849093 999 164th Ave NE Bellevue WA 98008; and 15,000 to Rescue at Red Barn Farm EIN 93-3321237 5703 208th Ave NE Redmond WA 98053-2440 in support of their charitable program operations and continued provision of community gathering space. These grants further the organizations exempt purpose by extending support to aligned youth-serving and community-building programs in the same geographic service area. 20000 20000 46400 Jessica Devine President 15 0 0 0 Sam Devine Vice President 1 0 0 0 Rachel D'Souza Co-Treasurer 10 0 0 0 Thomas Devine Co-Treasurer 10 0 0 0 Janet Hoffman Berg Secretary 10 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false false false WA Thomas Devine 1207 225th AVE NE Sammamish WA 98074 9512339708 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 0 0 0 0 54906 54906 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54906 54906 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54906 0 0 0 0 26 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54932 54932 0.9995 0.00 0.0005 0.00 X Haunted House 40852 0 40852 0 0 8587 4809 0 9672 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40852 0 40852 0 0 8587 4809 0 9672 23068 17784 Part I, line 10 - Cash | Description:, Amount:, Grantee Type:, Grantee Name:, Grantee Address:, Activity Type:, Class of Activity Description:, RelationShipDescription:|Sammamish Friends EIN: 45-4396265, $2000, -, -, -, -, -, - | Youth Eastside Services EIN 91-0849093, $1500, -, -, -, -, -, - | Rescue at Red Barn Farm EIN: 93-3321237, $15000, Organization, Rescue at Red Barn Farm, 5703 208th Ave NE Redmond WA 98053-2440, Other, Support expansion of youth-focused services and activities, - | Friends of Sammamish Youth EIN: 93-1953310, $1500, -, -, -, -, -, - | Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| Volunteer workshop food 1,030; software Checkr 496 SignUpGenius 120 Smartwaiver 63 Elementor 65 744; admin state excise bank processing fees 96; rounding 1. Total 1,871., $1871| Part II, line 24 | Explanation:, BOYAmount:, EOYAmount:| Construction materials props and set pieces used to operate the all-volunteer community haunted house. Inventory carried at estimated fair market replacement value., $10000, $10000| Part I, Line 6 | Explanation:| Form 990-EZ Part I Line 6b Line 6c Supplemental Information re: Fundraising Methodology: Fright Town Eastsides all-volunteer community haunted house held in October 2025 is the organizations primary fundraising event. Gross fundraising-event income of 40,852 Line 6b was received through the organizations online giving platform Zeffy during the event window. Direct event expenses of 23,068 Line 6c itemized on Schedule G Part II include current-year venue rent event-portion food and beverages construction supplies and props event-liability insurance volunteer safety equipment marketing and other direct event costs. Net fundraising-event income Line 6d is 17,784. An additional 14,054 of off-event contributions Line 1 was received through on-site donations mobile-payment platforms employer matching gifts and direct contributions outside the event window. No goods services admission charge food beverage gaming raffles or merchandise of fair market value are provided in exchange for any contribution; the haunted house has no required admission charge and the organization conducts no concessions sales or other revenue-generating activities. Although the Zeffy platform uses ticket terminology in its checkout flow the items offered are clearly labeled as donations and no minimum payment is required to attend; during the 2025 season more than 300 individuals attended without making any donation. Direct event expenses 23,068 are netted against gross event income on Form 990-EZ Line 6c per Schedule G Part II. The Form 990-EZ Part III Line 28 program-substance figure 25,370 includes these direct event expenses plus 2,302 of year-round storage occupancy reported separately on Line 14 used to house haunted-house construction materials props and set pieces. The storage cost is reported once on the face of the return at Line 14 and is presented in Part III Line 28 as program substance to fairly describe the organizations exempt activity; this is a presentation classification not a duplication. Part II, Line 24 | Explanation:| Form 990-EZ Part II Line 24 Other Assets: Construction materials props and set pieces used to operate the all-volunteer community haunted house. Inventory carried at estimated fair market replacement value. Part V, General | Explanation:| Form 990-EZ Part V Supplemental Information re: Predecessor Organization and Related-Party Considerations: Fright Town Eastside was incorporated in April 2025 as an independent 501c3 public charity following the spin-off of its haunted house program from Sammamish Friends EIN 45-4396265 which had previously served as fiscal sponsor. Upon incorporation Sammamish Friends transferred 65,762.23 in cash and 10,000 in haunted-house construction materials and props to Fright Town Eastside as opening assets recorded in Fright Town Eastsides incorporating documents as predecessor-entity assets rather than as a 2025 contribution. During 2025 Fright Town Eastside made a 2,000 grant to Sammamish Friends to support their community Mud Run fundraising event an activity aligned with Fright Town Eastsides exempt purpose. The grant was made on arms-length terms in the ordinary course of charitable activity. Fright Town Eastside and Sammamish Friends operate independently with separate boards officers and finances. No officer director or key employee of Fright Town Eastside currently serves as an officer director or key employee of Sammamish Friends. During the period in which Sammamish Friends served as the financial sponsor Jessica Devine sat on the board in her capacity as president of Fright Town Eastside. No common control financial interdependence or ongoing operational relationship exists between the two organizations beyond arms-length charitable grant-making. Part IV, General | Explanation:| Form 990-EZ Part IV Supplemental Information re: Officer Relationships: Jessica Devine President and TJ Devine Co-Treasurer are spouses. Sam Devine Vice President is their son and is the motivating reason both for founding the haunted house program and for the organizations focus on youth-serving and youth-related community programming. Rachel DSouza serves as Co-Treasurer alongside TJ Devine designated to provide additional financial oversight and support in light of this familial relationship. No business transactions between Fright Town Eastside and any officer director key employee or family member occurred during the tax year.