Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in May 1969.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
75 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
41 people listed on the 990; $1.7M paid to officers and key staff.
Tom Parrish’s $360K as Managing Director is at the 57th percentile of top reported officer pay among 749 $10–100M arts & culture nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 8 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susan Medak | — | — | $344,973 | $309,979 | $285,107 | $595,192 |
| Johanna Pfaelzer | $358,879 | $423,782 | $338,372 | $306,259 | $281,646 | $192,449 |
| Anthony Taccone | — | — | — | — | $383,475 | $219,911 |
| Tom Parrish | $360,319 | $350,234 | $132,256 | — | — | — |
| Lynn Eve Komaromi | — | — | $114,443 | $263,982 | $151,142 | $158,918 |
| Stephen Tate | — | — | $197,574 | — | — | — |
| Ari Lipsky | $186,921 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Theresa Von Klug | — | — | — | $180,520 | $148,954 | $152,280 |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
See Berkeley Repertory Theatre executive salaries →Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Produces premier theatrical works and supports artists by incubating, developing, and staging new plays and international productions for local and global audiences.
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Berkeley rep welcomed new artistic director johanna pfaelzer, who began her full-time tenure at the top of the 2019-20 season. The season began with the american premiere of francis turnly's the great wave directed by mark wing-davey, and continued with the west coast premiere of suzan-lori parks' white noise, one of the most talked…
Following an unusually busy and productive fall, the school of theatre appeared on track to meet and perhaps even exceed engagement goals for the 2019-20 season. From september 2019 to march 2020, we served 70 classrooms and provided 13,594 contact hours via a wide range of in-class theatre-based workshops.
The pandemic required berkeley rep to make many changes to how it approaches new play development activities. We had to cancel the 2020 ground floor summer residency lab, which gathers as many as 100 artists at our west berkeley campus each summer to work on 12-22 projects.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
Federal money
The auditor reported no findings.
By the numbers
The FY2020 990, line by line.
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| Line | FY20 | FY19 | FY18 | FY17 | FY16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End of yearLn 1g | $4.8M | $4.5M | $5.0M | $4.8M | $4.3M |
| Given inLn 1b | $51K | $110K | $100 | $2K | $57K |
| SpentLn 1d–1f | $75K | $639K | $51K | $24K | $23K |
| Line | Start FY20 | End FY20 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $31.0M | $29.8M |
| InvestmentsLn 11–13 | $5.0M | $5.3M |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $30.5M | $32.1M |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $74.8M | $72.4M |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $47.7M | $48.3M |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $27.1M | $24.1M |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants to domestic individualsLn 2 | $4K | $4K | ||
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $631K | $386K | $152K | $92K |
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $6.6M | $4.9M | $1.2M | $521K |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $1.1M | $827K | $140K | $89K |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $584K | $472K | $63K | $49K |
| Legal feesLn 11b | $4K | $4K | ||
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $106K | $106K | ||
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $696K | $596K | $12K | $88K |
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $768K | $39K | $694K | $35K |
| Office expensesLn 13 | $178K | $88K | $75K | $15K |
| RoyaltiesLn 15 | $394K | $394K | ||
| OccupancyLn 16 | $296K | $274K | $15K | $8K |
| TravelLn 17 | $378K | $375K | $3K | $533 |
| InterestLn 20 | $384K | $361K | $11K | $11K |
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $783K | $737K | $23K | $23K |
| InsuranceLn 23 | $267K | $255K | $6K | $5K |
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $2.3M | $1.9M | $250K | $131K |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $100K | $100K | ||
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $15.5M | $11.7M | $2.7M | $1.1M |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 LatestFiled with the IRS Feb 12, 2026 | $21.2M | $23.3M | −$2.1M | $41.4M | 990 PDF |
| FY2024Filed with the IRS Feb 3, 2025 | $42.9M | $22.9M | $20.0M | $43.0M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023Filed with the IRS Mar 7, 2024 | $15.4M | $23.5M | −$8.1M | $22.3M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022Filed with the IRS Jun 8, 2023 | $24.0M | $19.7M | $4.3M | $30.1M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021Filed with the IRS May 13, 2022 | $11.4M | $9.7M | $1.7M | $26.5M | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 ViewingFiled with the IRS Apr 21, 2021 | $12.3M | $15.5M | −$3.2M | $24.1M | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2020 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $12,344,789 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 30 of 32 board members independent, no flags
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $12,344,789 across 11 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $15,507,640 across 18 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $72,417,342 assets, 18 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $24,129,827 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2020 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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