Nonprofit · EIN 94-1692171
EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Tax-exempt · RICHMOND, CA 94801
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2025 | 990 | $5,823,462 | $4,363,900 | $1,459,562 | $26,568,788 | $460,753 | $26,108,035 |
| June 30, 2024 | 990 | $6,464,471 | $3,812,076 | $2,652,395 | $25,764,274 | $226,144 | $25,538,130 |
| June 30, 2023 | 990 | $6,353,111 | $3,656,590 | $2,696,521 | $23,092,519 | $223,125 | $22,869,394 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $4,730,040
- of which government grants
- $576,014
- Program service revenue
- $236,045
- Investment income
- $765,230
- Net income from fundraising events
- $254,389
- Other revenue
- $92,147
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $117,456
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $137,724
- Other salaries and wages
- $2,540,539
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $3,129,207
- Professional fundraising fees
- $136,722
- Occupancy
- $96,675
- Travel
- $18,821
- Depreciation
- $368,325
- Program services (functional)
- $3,309,891
- Management and general (functional)
- $528,832
- Fundraising (functional)
- $525,177
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $25,764,274
- Total assets, end of year
- $26,568,788
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $460,753
- Net assets, end of year
- $26,108,035
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $8,767,118
- Publicly traded securities
- $6,332,957
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $16,092,161
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $10,015,874
- Gross unrelated business income
- -$165,343
- Gross receipts
- $5,924,499
- Employees
- 102
- Volunteers
- 38
- Year formed
- 1968
- State of legal domicile
- CA
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruth Esther Dineen | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $137,723 |
| Deborah Preston | Dir. of HR | 40 | $134,660 |
| Jean Chang | Controller | 40 | $134,306 |
| Andrea Landin | Dir. of Programs | 40 | $128,926 |
| Charles Anku | Student Dev.& Trng | 40 | $127,668 |
| Giuliana Blasi | Dir. Development | 40 | $122,435 |
| Mayra L Padilla | President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Tamina Alon | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Joel Ramirez | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Richard Zhu | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| John Clawson | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Gail Covington | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Monica Pressley | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Zach Papale | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Timothy Thompson-Cook | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
4 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Vliet | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Nicole Barnett | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Charlie Bullock | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Susan Lindheim | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended June 30, 2024: 18 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Preston | Dir. of HR | 40 | $134,660 |
| Jean Chang | Controller | 40 | $134,306 |
| Ruth Esther Dineen | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $133,180 |
| Andrea Landin | Dir. of Programs | 40 | $128,926 |
| Giuliana Blasi | Dir. Development | 40 | $122,435 |
| Mayra L Padilla | President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Tamina Alon | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Joel Ramirez | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Richard Zhu | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| John Clawson | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Gail Covington | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Monica Pressley | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Zach Papale | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Timothy Thompson-Cook | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| David Vliet | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Nicole Barnett | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Charlie Bullock | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Susan Lindheim | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended June 30, 2023: 14 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruth Esther Dineen | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $125,187 |
| Deborah Preston | Dir. of HR | 40 | $101,088 |
| Susan Lindheim | President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Tamina Alon | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Mayra Padilla | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Richard Zhu | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| John Clawson | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Gail Covington | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Monica Pressley | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Joel Ramirez | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Timothy Thompson-Cook | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Vanessa Whang | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Nicole Barnett | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Charlie Bullock | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 339 11TH ST, RICHMOND, CA 94801-3105
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Ruth Esther Dineen, 339 11th Street, Richmond, CA 94801
- Signed the 990
- Ruth Esther Dineen, Executive Dir.
- Phone
- (510) 234-2624
- Website
- www.eastbaycenter.org
- Return prepared by
- HEALY AND ASSOCIATES
California records
California keeps its own records of charities and corporations. Search them by EIN 94-1692171 or by the name EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS.
- Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers
- Registration status and filed reports (CT-TR-1, RRF-1)
- Secretary of State, bizfile Online
- Corporation status, entity number, agent for service
- Franchise Tax Board
- Entity status letter (state tax exemption, good standing)
Mission
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts engages youth and young adults in imagining and creating new worlds for themselves and new visions for their communities through the inspiration and discipline of rigorous training in world performance traditions.
Program accomplishments
- In 2024-25, we served over 300 students at our Main Site, with several others on the waitlist. We averaged about 60 group classes, 74 private lessons, and 7 resident ensemble rehearsals per week, and produced over 20 performances.Summer Intensive: In July-August 2025, 101 YADP students completed our five-week, 200-hour Summer Intensive immersion session. The Summer Intensive requires cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary training, as well as technical instruction in music, dance, and contemporary theater forms and culminates with three evenings of student presentations.Young Artist Diploma Program: Instruction for all 100 Diploma students averaged 6-8 hours per week of instruction consisting of lessons, classes, and ensembles based on both specific repertoire traditions and East Bay Centers Deep Roots Wide World Curriculum. Students participated in individual recitals in March and November and group recitals in April and December. The Centers Program Leadership team continued to develop and advance curriculum and learning goals for all seven program pathways, with a focus on clear, explicit youth development outcomes and strategies that are the foundation of our students success.Resident Companies: Our seven youth resident companies, focusing on celebrating cultural artforms (i.e. West African Music and Dance, Mexican Music and Dance) enroll 50 advanced Center students to reach local audiences of thousands of community members annually. In 2024, Resident Companies performed in 11 community events total. In December 2024, three Resident Companies - Voices of Reason, Iron Triangle Theater Company, and Richmond Chamber Ensemble, participated in the Downtown Holiday Festival: A Richmond Nutcracker.Expenses $3,309,891 · grants $117,456 · revenue $236,045
- Youth Leadership: The Center continued to offer opportunities for our students to connect to their community, while building a strong sense of ownership.Throughout the year, your Student Leadership Committee met to contribute their ideas to how the Center can continue to improve and be inclusive of all students. This included helping facilitate the New Student Orientation for the Diploma program, forming a welcome committee for Summer Intensive, creating a Spirit Week for the Center, and helping promote our student performances.Additionally, the Center received a grant from the Creative Work Fund to launch a collaboration and artistic commission with Robert Moses. The collaboration involved Robert doing a series of workshops with our students around storytelling and movement, creating an original piece that represents the students' stories. To launch this process, he met with our student leadership group in the fall to get some ideas/a sense of direction on how he might best learn about the Center and it's students. Student leadership helped him create a whiteboard in the CT that asked different questions to students ("What are you most proud of"? What's your favorite part about East Bay Center?" "Who inspires you?" etc) - students responded over the course of a week. In the spring, he met with a group of 12 students to create and choreograph the dance piece, which culminated in a performance in June.Student Support: To support our older students to develop their full artistic, academic and social potential, the Center continued our college scholarship program for Young Artists Diploma Program graduates. The scholarship funded 5 full, renewable scholarships for students who plan to pursue the performing arts in college, 4 four year scholarships (approx $10,000/year) recognizing perseverance and motivation, and $2,000 renewable scholarships for all other graduates. As part of their scholarship,graduates will continue to receive coaching and mentoring from the Centers team of social workers, staff and faculty.
- School and Neighborhood Partnerships ProgramsIn 2024-2025, East Bay Center, in partnership with West Contra Costa Unified School District, delivered programs to approximately 3,500 students. The programs offer a unique approach to teaching fundamental music skills about global traditions while increasing equitable access to arts education and positively impacting school culture and climate.The curriculum and content for our In School Arts Program focused on music fundamentals, hands-on instruction, global music repertoire, and ensemble performance techniques at Grant, King, Obama, Nystrom, Peres, Valley View, Washington, and Stege Elementary Schools. Across these eight campuses:- Students on average receive 30 weeks of class instruction, which includes access to appropriate musical instruments and supplies.- Kindergarten through 3rd grade receive weekly music classes of 30 minutes each.- 4th through 6th grade receive 45 minutes of class per week- Students perform in at least two presentations each year at each school- Community performances happen throughout the year in alignment with the school calendar (i.e., Back to School Night, holiday festivals, Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month etc.).In addition, we continued our novel Rotations program for grades 4-6 at three schools, which included two 15 week courses for students in Hip Hop, Drumming, Mexican Music and Dance, and Persian Dance. We also produced several assemblies for Hispanic Heritage Month and Black History Month, featuring professional artists and introducing students to new cultural art forms.East Bay Center provided after school programs at an additional two schools, with a focus on dance.We also provided instrumental coaching/private lessons at four middle and high schools. All teaching artists participated in 2 professional development/training sessions. In total, we averaged 137.7 hours of classes per week in 2024-25.
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in June, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | June 30, 2026 | November 16, 2026 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | June 30, 2025 | November 17, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | June 30, 2024 | November 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 94-1692171
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (509(a)(2))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1969
- Accounting year ends
- June
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Arts, culture and humanities (A6E0)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $26,568,788
- Income (IRS master file)
- $5,924,499
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | June 2025 | $5,823,462 | $4,363,900 | $26,568,788 | XML |
| 990-T | June 2025 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2024 | $6,464,471 | $3,812,076 | $25,764,274 | XML |
| 990-T | June 2024 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2023 | $6,353,111 | $3,656,590 | $23,092,519 | XML |
| 990-T | June 2023 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2022 | $5,625,624 | $3,288,782 | $20,025,823 | IRS |
| 990-T | June 2022 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 94-1692171).
Questions about EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
- What is the EIN of EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS is 94-1692171.
- Is EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1969.
- Are donations to EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending June 30, 2026) is due November 16, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended June 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 names Ruth Esther Dineen.
- Who are the officers and directors of EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 lists 19 people; 6 received compensation from the organization, the highest $137,723 (Ruth Esther Dineen, Executive Dir.).
- How much revenue does EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS have?
- On its 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $5,823,462, expenses of $4,363,900 and total assets of $26,568,788 at year end.
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