Public Charity

Playhouse Square Foundation

Playhouse Square Foundation is a Public Charity headquartered in Cleveland, OH. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $89.1M revenue, $94.1M expenses, $343.0M total assets. 122 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $13.3M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 237304942 Cleveland, OH Performing Arts Centers NTEE: A61 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$89.1M
Total Expenses$94.1M
Total Assets$343.0M
Grant Records122
Funding Total$13.3M
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

Playhouse Square Foundation is a not-for-profit performing arts center whose mission is presenting and producing a wide variety of quality performing arts, advancing arts education, and creating a theater district that is a superior location for entertainment, business, and housing, thereby strengthening the economic vitality of the region.

Where $100 goes at Playhouse Square Foundation

How Playhouse Square Foundation divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$88 Programs the work itself
$9 Management running the organization
$3 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $88 for programs

$76
The Foundation's purpose is to operate and sustain on a financially viable basis a performing arts center presenting and producing works of artistic excellence for the benefit of…
86% of program spending · Reported in the filing: 1,208 performances; 60,000 students
$10
The Foundation is committed in its actions to enhance and develop that portion of downtown Cleveland known as "Playhouse Square" by not only operating the theaters as discussed…
11% of program spending
$2
The Foundation is committed to offer a variety of educational activities that develop new audiences and enhance connections with existing audiences within Northeast Ohio region
3% of program spending · Reported in the filing: 400,000 students; 184,000 individuals
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

Trustee Alex Szilvas
Vice Chair, Nominating Governance Amy G Brady
Vice Chair, Sales & Marketing Andrea Hogben
Senior VP Ticket Sales & Marketing Autumn Kiser
Trustee Beth Mooney
Vice Chair, Real Estate Development Bill Cosgrove

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$7,770,329 82 grants
Arts & Culture
$4,787,094 29 grants
Economic Development
$318,000 5 grants
Training & Professional Development
$251,141 1 grant
Health & Medicine
$114,466 2 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $89.1M $94.1M $343.0M
2024 $83.1M $82.1M $346.4M
2023 $97.2M $91.6M $341.3M
2022 $68.0M $65.5M $324.7M
2021 $24.7M $32.8M $326.1M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $24.7M to $89.1M (+261%), with total assets most recently reported at $343.0M.

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