2026-04-02T14:05:12-07:00 2025-12-31 990EZ 2025-01-01 823584901 Merrimans Playhouse Inc MERR 5743187066 518 Marquette Avenue South Bend IN 46617 Richard Cullar Board Member 5742768432 2026-04-02 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X www.merrimansplayhouse.org X X 99481 X 48227 36134 0 0 15000 15000 0 0 0 0 0 120 0 120 0 84481 0 0 0 31081 32284 1640 18457 83462 1019 35608 0 36627 X 20696 36265 0 0 15000 450 35696 36715 88 88 35608 36627 To promote the art and education of jazz in our community. Merrimans' Playhouse is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) venue, established as an arts and educational organization. "A Home for Jazz." Established in 2006 and incorporated in 2017 as a 501(c)(3), Merrimans' Playhouse is both an arts and educational performing and presenting organization. It is a place to experience an intimate, live jazz performance. Annually Merrimans' Playhouse presents a variety of performance and educational events, including clinics, with professional touring jazz artists, from straight ahead to avant-garde. * Jazz Performance Series. Approximately 100 Jazz concerts a year with touring regional, national, and international jazz musicians, and occasional jazz clinic for area jazz artists and students. * Home Grown Jazz Performance Series. Approximately 12 concerts per year provide an opportunity for area jazz ensembles to perform. * Student Jazz Performance Series. Approximately 13 concerts a year, includes area, regional, or touring college or high school student performers, either as part of the ensemble, or as student-led ensembles. * Jazz Open Session. Held weekly on Tuesdays for local jazz musicians, students, and listeners. Approximately 51 a year. Includes discussion of songs, feel, forms, chords, soloing, and emphasizes how to listen to each other and work democratically as a musical collective. The audience witnesses the process of jazz through the open discussions. * Chamber Arts Series. May include chamber jazz, classical, or other traditional music concerts. Approximately 5 per year. Intended as a more in-depth experience in a more intimate and educational way. May include explanation of the history of the music, the intent of the music and performance, or how they work together as a collective, to create an opportunity for the audience to learn more about the art and the artists. * Monthly Jazz Radio Program. Merrimans' Playhouse is part of WVPE's (88.1 FM) radio program "The Sauce Live from Merrimans' Playhouse." This one-hour radio broadcast focuses on live music with interviews, highlighting four venues in the Michiana area, which includes Merrimans' Playhouse as the jazz venue. The premier airing was April 22, 2024. * Summer Jazz Series at the University of Notre Dame's Raclin Murphy Museum of Art: "Merrimans' Playhouse @ the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art." Four summer concerts held at the museum. They have been partnering with the museum since 2015. Stephen and Mary Merriman curate the performances. * Other Community Collaborations. Merrimans' Playhouse works with other area jazz festivals to promote jazz. In addition, Stephen and Mary Merriman have a positive collaborative relationship with the jazz education programs at UND, IUSB, and local high schools. * In May 2023 they offered their first lecture series collaboration (CHATS) with UND departments, hosting Prof. Alexander, "The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe." 0 71694 71694 Stephen Merriman President 28 0 0 0 Mary Merriman Secretary & Treasurer 45 0 0 0 Rob Easley Board Member 2 0 0 0 Patricia Doyle Board Member 2 0 0 0 Ismail Lindsay Egilmez Board Member 2 0 0 0 Karl Smith Board Member 2 0 0 0 Philip Schatz Board Member 2 0 0 0 Milton Lee Board Member 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mary Merriman 518 Marquette Avenue South Bend IN 46617 5743293430 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 66039 68292 47375 58400 48227 288333 11629 26130 33014 41825 36134 148732 111 3485 2166 3147 120 9029 77779 97907 82555 103372 84481 446094 1000 0 8 3363 2969 7340 20000 30000 5000 10000 0 65000 21000 30000 5008 13363 2969 72340 373754 77779 97907 82555 103372 84481 446094 0.83784 0.79669 0 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Web page;252|Bank and merchant card fees;3404|Insurance;1895|Music license;1205|Filing fee;23|PayPal fees;427|Piano tuning;4600|Office expenses;2469|Musicians' meals;4032|Taxes and licenses;50|Contract labor;100^Total;18457^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Description;EOY Amount^Reimbursement receivable;450^Total;450^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Description;EOY Amount^Sales tax payable;88^Total;88^