CHARACTERWORKS INC

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2025 · Form 990 · revenue $1.3M · expenses $1.3M · assets $544K

EIN

03-0416976

Address

2216 PERL RD, RICHMOND, VA 23230-2008

Website

www.cworkstheater.org

NTEE code

O50 Youth Development Programs (Youth Development) published (IRS Business Master File)

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

October 2004 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exemption revoked May 15, 2021 for not filing a return three years in a row (automatic revocation; posted August 9, 2021) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity, 509(a)(2)

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Mission

CharacterWorks is an afterschool theater arts youth program for ages 4-19. We strive to build character in kids and adults by creating community through quality theater classes, camps, and by producing stage plays and musicals for the community at large.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

8 people paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

17 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Funders of this organization

5 grantors reported grants to this organization, $45,136 in all, tax years 2015 to 2024. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

Federal grants and contracts

Awards from USAspending.gov to a recipient with this organization's name and zip code. Obligations by federal fiscal year (October to September); each award links to its page on usaspending.gov.

State business registration

• CharacterWorks, Inc. VA, Nonstock corporation, Active (Active and In Good Standing), formed 2002-03-15

The same business name in the same state, from the state’s official registry data.