FRIENDS OF THE LYRIC

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2025 · Form 990EZ · revenue $81K · expenses $79K · assets $180K

EIN
46-1567192
Address
PO BOX 411, RUGBY, ND 58368-0411
NTEE code
A80
Exempt type
501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)
Ruling date
August 2016 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)
IRS status
Exempt: reinstated May 15, 2015 after an automatic revocation on May 15, 2015 IRS data ↗
Tax-deductible donations
Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗
Foundation status
Public charity, 509(a)(2)
Principal officer
SUSAN STEINKE (its 2022 Form 990-N)
Form 990-N e-postcards
1 filed, 2022 (organizations with gross receipts normally $50,000 or less file this instead of a full Form 990) IRS data ↗
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Mission

OPERATE, MAINTAIN, UPGRADE, & PRESERVE THE LYRIC THEATER IN RUGBY, ND IN A SUSTAINABLE MANNER. FRIENDS OF THE LYRIC SERVES THE COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING A VENUE FOR LOCAL, AFFORDABLE MOTION

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).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

None of the 22 people listed on these returns reported compensation from the organization. They are listed below.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

22 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.

NameLatest titleYearsHrs/wk (latest)CompensationOrganizations
Tricia Torgerson PRESIDENT2024-2025 1 $0 reported 2
Hannah Voeller SECRETARY2024-2025 1 $0 reported 2
Karen Tandeski TREASURER2024-2025 5 $0 reported 1
Mike Nichols DIRECTOR2024-2025 1 $0 reported 1
Lindsey Bush VICE PRESIDENT2024-2025 1 $0 reported 1
Braydon Kunkel DIRECTOR2025 1 $0 reported 1
Emily Paul DIRECTOR2025 1 $0 reported 1
Taylor Tuchscherer DIRECTOR2025 1 $0 reported 1
Samantha Burckhard DIRECTOR2025 1 $0 reported 1
Jodi Kirchofner (former) VICE PRESIDENT2016-2024 1 $0 reported 1
Holly Niemi (former) SECRETARY2016-2024 1 $0 reported 1
Roger Sitter (former) DIRECTOR2023-2024 1 $0 reported 1
Teri Jacobson (former) DIRECTOR2024 1 $0 reported 1
Susan Steinke (former) PRESIDENT2016-2023 1 $0 reported 1
Bonnie Kuehnemund (former) TREASURER2016-2023 1 $0 reported 1
Terri Jacobson (former) DIRECTOR2016-2023 1 $0 reported 1
Trisha Jundt (former) DIRECTOR2023 1 $0 reported 1
Caye Bednardz (former) DIRECTOR2016-2023 1 $0 reported 1
Bryce Berginski (former) DIRECTOR2016-2023 1 $0 reported 1
Kipp Johnson (former) DIRECTOR2016-2020 1 $0 reported 1
Darylanna Durke (former) DIRECTOR2018-2020 1 $0 reported 1
Steve Mueller (former) DIRECTOR2016-2017 1 $0 reported 2

People by year

2025 · 9 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
TRICIA TORGERSON PRESIDENT1 $0-$0 $02
LINDSEY BUSH VICE PRESIDENT1 $0-$0 $01
HANNAH VOELLER SECRETARY1 $0-$0 $02
KAREN TANDESKI TREASURER5 $0-$0 $01
BRAYDON KUNKEL DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
EMILY PAUL DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
TAYLOR TUCHSCHERER DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
MIKE NICHOLS DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
SAMANTHA BURCKHARD DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
2024 · 9 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
TRICIA TORGERSON PRESIDENT1 $0-$0 $02
JODI KIRCHOFNER VICE PRESIDENT1 $0-$0 $01
HOLLY NIEMI SECRETARY1 $0-$0 $01
KAREN TANDESKI TREASURER5 $0-$0 $01
ROGER SITTER DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
HANNAH VOELLER DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $02
TERI JACOBSON DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
MIKE NICHOLS DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
LINDSEY BUSH DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
2023 · 9 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
SUSAN STEINKE PRESIDENT1 $0-- $01
BONNIE KUEHNEMUND TREASURER1 $0-- $01
TERRI JACOBSON DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
HOLLY NIEMI SECRETARY1 $0-- $01
ROGER SITTER DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
JODI KIRCHOFNER VICE PRESIDE1 $0-- $01
TRISHA JUNDT DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
CAYE BEDNARDZ DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
BRYCE BERGINSKI DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
2020 · 9 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
SUSAN STEINKE PRESIDENT1 $0-- $01
BONNIE KUEHNEMUND TREASURER1 $0-- $01
TERRI JACOBSON VICE PRESIDE1 $0-- $01
HOLLY NIEMI SECRETARY1 $0-- $01
KIPP JOHNSON DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
JODI KIRCHOFNER DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
DARYLANNA DURKE DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
CAYE BEDNARDZ DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
BRYCE BERGINSKI DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
2019 · 9 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
SUSAN STEINKE PRESIDENT1 $0-- $01
BONNIE KUEHNEMUND TREASURER1 $0-- $01
TERRI JACOBSON VICE PRESIDE1 $0-- $01
HOLLY NIEMI SECRETARY1 $0-- $01
KIPP JOHNSON DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
JODI KIRCHOFNER DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
DARYLANNA DURKE DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
CAYE BEDNARDZ DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
BRYCE BERGINSKI DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
2018 · 9 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
SUSAN STEINKE PRESIDENT1 $0-- $01
BONNIE KUEHNEMUND TREASURER1 $0-- $01
TERRI JACOBSON VICE PRESIDE1 $0-- $01
HOLLY NIEMI SECRETARY1 $0-- $01
KIPP JOHNSON DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
JODI KIRCHOFNER DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
DARYLANNA DURKE DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
CAYE BEDNARDZ DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
BRYCE BERGINSKI DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
2017 · 9 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
SUSAN STEINKE PRESIDENT1 $0-- $01
BONNIE KUEHNEMUND TREASURER1 $0-- $01
TERRI JACOBSON VICE PRESIDE1 $0-- $01
HOLLY NIEMI SECRETARY1 $0-- $01
KIPP JOHNSON DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
JODI KIRCHOFNER DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
STEVE MUELLER DIRECTOR1 $0-- $02
CAYE BEDNARDZ DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
BRYCE BERGINSKI DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
2016 · 9 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
SUSAN STEINKE PRESIDENT1 $0-- $01
BONNIE KUEHNEMUND TREASURER1 $0-- $01
TERRI JACOBSON VICE PRESIDE1 $0-- $01
HOLLY NIEMI SECRETARY1 $0-- $01
KIPP JOHNSON DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
JODI KIRCHOFNER DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
STEVE MUELLER DIRECTOR1 $0-- $02
CAYE BEDNARDZ DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01
BRYCE BERGINSKI DIRECTOR1 $0-- $01

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.

RevenueExpensesAssetsNet assetsContributionsProgram revenueOfficer payEmployeesVolunteers
2025 · Form 990EZ period ending 2025-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$81,225$78,766 $180,081$172,117 $11,387$68,938 ---
2024 · Form 990EZ period ending 2024-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$70,689$65,915 $177,414$169,658 $560$67,538 ---
2023 · Form 990EZ period ending 2023-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$67,604$67,928 $173,126$164,880 $927$65,743 ---
2020 · Form 990EZ period ending 2020-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$17,133$40,929 $186,573$179,116 $477$15,864 ---
2019 · Form 990EZ period ending 2019-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$89,256$82,295 $210,018$202,912 $12,708$73,643 ---
2018 · Form 990EZ period ending 2018-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$108,181$77,701 $202,140$195,951 $16,502$89,660 ---
2017 · Form 990EZ period ending 2017-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$87,853$82,790 $169,468$165,473 $2,099$83,444 ---
2016 · Form 990EZ period ending 2016-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$88,920$69,508 $164,242$160,408 $2,423$84,079 ---

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

Funders of this organization

1 grantor reported grants to this organization, $71 in all, tax years 2020 to 2023. 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

GrantorTypeMatchYears givenGrantsTotalLatest yearLatest year's amountGrants
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION Private foundation Fuzzy filed as “FRIENDS OF THE LYRIC” 2020-2023 4$71 2023$28
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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.

2025 · Form 990EZ · $78,766 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $52,564 66.7%
Occupancy, rent, utilities, maintenance $25,556 32.4%
Fees to independent contractors $475 0.6%
Printing, publications, postage $171 0.2%
Total$78,766100%

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2024 · Form 990EZ · $65,915 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $48,857 74.1%
Occupancy, rent, utilities, maintenance $16,110 24.4%
Fees to independent contractors $725 1.1%
Printing, publications, postage $223 0.3%
Total$65,915100%

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2023 · Form 990EZ · $67,928 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $40,973 60.3%
Occupancy, rent, utilities, maintenance $26,327 38.8%
Fees to independent contractors $325 0.5%
Printing, publications, postage $303 0.4%
Total$67,928100%

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2020 · Form 990EZ · $40,929 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Occupancy, rent, utilities, maintenance $22,710 55.5%
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $17,540 42.9%
Fees to independent contractors $615 1.5%
Printing, publications, postage $64 0.2%
Total$40,929100%

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2019 · Form 990EZ · $82,295 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $2,310
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $53,105 64.5%
Occupancy, rent, utilities, maintenance $28,401 34.5%
Fees to independent contractors $615 0.7%
Printing, publications, postage $174 0.2%
Fundraising events Eventdirect expenses; gross income -$2,310reported apart
Total$82,295100%

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2018 · Form 990EZ · $77,701 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $61,439 79.1%
Occupancy, rent, utilities, maintenance $15,028 19.3%
Fees to independent contractors $1,115 1.4%
Printing, publications, postage $119 0.2%
Total$77,701100%

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2017 · Form 990EZ · $82,790 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $67,900 82.0%
Occupancy, rent, utilities, maintenance $14,117 17.1%
Fees to independent contractors $615 0.7%
Printing, publications, postage $158 0.2%
Total$82,790100%

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2016 · Form 990EZ · $69,508 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $58,795 84.6%
Occupancy, rent, utilities, maintenance $9,931 14.3%
Fees to independent contractors $615 0.9%
Printing, publications, postage $167 0.2%
Total$69,508100%

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