Nonprofit · EIN 91-0776606
JACK STRAW FOUNDATION
Tax-exempt · SEATTLE, WA 98105
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2025 | 990 | $485,041 | $664,092 | -$179,051 | $1,438,686 | $207,518 | $1,231,168 |
| June 30, 2024 | 990 | $793,706 | $682,691 | $111,015 | $1,594,197 | $201,523 | $1,392,674 |
| June 30, 2023 | 990 | $560,427 | $562,477 | -$2,050 | $1,477,457 | $215,363 | $1,262,094 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $321,856
- of which government grants
- $192,175
- Program service revenue
- $132,538
- Investment income
- $32,316
- Net rental income
- -$1,981
- Net gain from sales of assets
- $7,788
- Other revenue
- -$1,669
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $100,778
- Other salaries and wages
- $251,103
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $396,613
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $17,981
- Occupancy
- $18,789
- Travel
- $5,469
- Depreciation
- $25,292
- Program services (functional)
- $573,238
- Management and general (functional)
- $87,864
- Fundraising (functional)
- $2,990
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $1,594,197
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,438,686
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $207,518
- Net assets, end of year
- $1,231,168
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $557,316
- Publicly traded securities
- $653,992
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $823,608
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $407,560
- Gross receipts
- $658,698
- Employees
- 9
- Volunteers
- 13
- Year formed
- 1962
- State of legal domicile
- WA
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 | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joan Rabinowitz | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $83,200 | $17,578 |
| Dominic Kody Cramers | President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Laurel Sercombe | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Erin Craver | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Larry Laurence | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Kathleen Flenniken | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Claudia Castro Luna | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lou Oma Durand | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Kerry Itami | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended June 30, 2024: 9 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joan Rabinowitz | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $81,196 | $20,067 |
| Erin Craver | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $10,163 | $0 |
| Dominic Kody Cramers | President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Laurel Sercombe | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Larry Laurence | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Kathleen Flenniken | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Claudia Castro Luna | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lou Oma Durand | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Kerry Itami | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended June 30, 2023: 9 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOAN RABINOWITZ | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Officer | 40 | $80,707 | $15,573 |
| ERIN CRAVER | TREASURER Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $8,594 | $0 |
| DOMINIC KODYCRAMERS | PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN | VICE PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| LAUREL SERCOMBE | SECRETARY Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| CLAUDIA CASTRO LUNA | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| LARRY LAURENCE | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| KERRY ITAMI | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| LOU OMA DURAND | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 4261 ROOSEVELT WAY NE, SEATTLE, WA 98105-6008
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Joan Rabinowitz, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105
- Signed the 990
- Joan Rabinowitz, Executive Dir.
- Phone
- (206) 634-0919
- Website
- www.jackstraw.org
- Return prepared by
- JACOBSON LAWRENCE & ASSOCIATES PLLC
Mission
Jack Straw Cultural Center exists to foster the creation and communication of arts, ideas, and information to diverse audiences through audio media. We keep art, culture, and heritage vital through sound.
Program accomplishments
- ARTS: We successfully completed the 32nd year of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, 29th year of the Jack Straw Writers Program, and the 26th year of the Jack Straw New Media Gallery and Gallery Residency Program. Over 180 artists created 32 new artworks, participated in 32 in person and streaming events, 4 exhibits, 1 anthology, and 39 radio programs or podcasts reaching over 6,000 audience members. We continue to develop new relationships and maintain longtime partnerships to keep our programming vital. We presented events with Seattle Public Library and Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery; recorded a live audiobook with Wave Books; presented a series of talks with Jack Straw Writers Program as part of the Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau program; produced the audio component of a Public Art Storytelling project with 4Culture; presented an intensive audio description workshop with Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium and an oral history workshop with Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust; and produced podcasts with partners such as StoryBoards NW and Seattle Arts and Lectures. We also provided a variety of arts, heritage, and education organizations with production support.Expenses $233,958 · revenue $47,471
- EDUCATION: We served over 650 elementary, middle school, and high school students in hands-on creative and curriculum-based projects including creative writing, oral history, radio theater, family celebration stories, music, and audio production. We continued to expand and adapt our programs for online, in-person, and hybrid settings in collaboration with our partners Seattle School District, Kandelia, WA Department of Services for the Blind, Arts & Visually Impaired Audiences, and the WA State School for the Blind. We completed the 29th year of our Blind Youth Audio Program, serving 26 blind and visually impaired high school students from throughout Washington State. We presented three accessible art-making workshops for blind and visually impaired students, families, and sighted friends with our New Media Gallery artists. We continued our ongoing programs such as our guitar lessons with new refugees at the Seattle World School; poetry with elementary students at Genesee Hill Elementary, poetry and song with Concord, Lowell, Adams, and Hazelwood Elementary Schools; interview podcasts with John Muir Elementary; and Spanish-language poetry with sixth through eighth grade dual-language students at Denny International Middle School. We also provided professional training for artists, teachers, and other community members.Expenses $193,067 · revenue $14,563
- STUDIO SERVICES: Our studio services, which we provide for a wide range of individuals and organizations, include music and spoken recording and production, remote recording, audio and video audition recording, podcast/radio production, audio book production, media digitization and preservation, audio mastering, sound design for film and performance, interpretive material production, oral history production, student and professional music recitals and performances, and radio theater. Music projects ranged from audition recordings for music students and professionals to album recordings for individuals and groups of all genres. We recorded and produced podcasts, radio theater, audio books, and other audio media for a variety of individuals and organizations, such as Imagination Theater, American Radio Theater, Shambhala Publications, Parley Productions, Opal Food & Body Wisdom, MacMillan Publishers, and EK Real Estate Group.Expenses $146,213 · revenue $68,405
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
- 91-0776606
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1965
- Accounting year ends
- June
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Arts, culture and humanities (A34Z)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $1,438,686
- Income (IRS master file)
- $658,698
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | June 2025 | $485,041 | $664,092 | $1,438,686 | IRS |
| 990 | June 2024 | $793,706 | $682,691 | $1,594,197 | IRS |
| 990 | June 2023 | $560,427 | $562,477 | $1,477,457 | XML |
| 990 | June 2022 | $630,622 | $526,679 | $1,498,787 | IRS |
| 990 | June 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2020 | – | – | – | 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 91-0776606).
Questions about JACK STRAW FOUNDATION
- What is the EIN of JACK STRAW FOUNDATION?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of JACK STRAW FOUNDATION is 91-0776606.
- Is JACK STRAW FOUNDATION tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1965.
- Are donations to JACK STRAW FOUNDATION tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does JACK STRAW FOUNDATION 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 JACK STRAW FOUNDATION 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 JACK STRAW FOUNDATION 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 JACK STRAW FOUNDATION?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 names Joan Rabinowitz.
- Who are the officers and directors of JACK STRAW FOUNDATION?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 lists 9 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $83,200 (Joan Rabinowitz, Executive Dir.).
- How much revenue does JACK STRAW FOUNDATION have?
- On its 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $485,041, expenses of $664,092 and total assets of $1,438,686 at year end.
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