Streetsigns
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
THE STREETSIGNS CENTER FOR LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE IS A PERFORMING ARTS AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER BASED IN PITTSBORO, NC. THE CENTER PRESENTS AND DEVELOPS NEW LITERARY ADAPTATIONS, SELF-CREATED THEATRICAL WORKS, INNOVATIVE NEW PLAYS, AND BOLD RE-IMAGINING OF CLASSICS.
- Income
- $50,709
- Spending
- $54,086
- Reserves
- 1.3 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 80%
- Highest pay
- $2,100, vice preside
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $21,857 spent. STREETSIGNS PRODUCED, IN COLLABORATION WITH AMERICA'S HALLOWED GROUND AT THE KENAN INSTITUTE FOR ETHICS AT DUKE UNIVERSITY, A NEW PLAY BY MIKE WILEY AND HOWARD L. CRAFT, CHANGING SAME: THE COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF BOOKER T. SPICELY, FOCUSED ON THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO AND FOLLOWING THE MURDER OF PRIVATE SPICELY. STREETSIGNS PRODUCED THE PUBLIC READING OF THIS PLAY IN JULY 2024, ON THE EVE OF THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRIVATE SPICELY'S DEATH.
- $13,826 spent. STREETSIGNS CONTINUED ITS PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PROCESS SERIES: NEW WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT, WHOSE 2024-25 SEASON, YES, AND...," CELEBRATED THE VOICES OF THE ARTISTS THROUGH WHOSE EYES WE SEE OUR WORLD ANEW AND THE PROCESS THROUGH WHICH THOSE ARTISTS ARRIVE AT THE WORKS WE SEE. THE SEASON BROUGHT EVERYTHING FROM IMPROV COMEDY TO CELLO IMPROVISATION TO A ONE- PERSON SHOW FEATURING MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS TO A NEW ROCK BANJO OPERA.
- $12,388 spent. STREETSIGNS PRODUCED, IN COLLABORATION WITH AMERICA'S HALLOWED GROUND AT THE KENAN INSTITUTE FOR ETHICS AT DUKE UNIVERSITY, A NEW SOLO NARRATIVE DANCE JOURNEY WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY AYA SHABU, LANDED. AYA SHABU TELLS HER STORY AS A SECOND-GENERATION AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN OF BAJAN DESCENT, MARKED BY HER GRANDMOTHER'S COLORISM, GENDER NORMS, AND PRIDEFUL NOTIONS OF BLACK MOBILITY.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending June 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since January 1994.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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