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Name:	Alley Theatre
Address:	615 Texas Avenue
	Houston, TX 77002
Phone:	713-228-8421
Web Address:	www.alleytheatre.org

Alley Theatre meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

The Alley was founded over sixty years ago as Houston’s theatre company. It exists to provide audiences with high quality theatre, offering a wide variety of works including new plays, classics, the re-discovered and rarely-performed, and new musical theatre, with an emphasis on new American works – to provide the inspirational and the provocative – to make the audiences think, feel, dream and be entertained. The Alley Theatre supports a company of actors, designers, artisans and craftspeople throughout the year. Their productions are built and rehearsed in the Alley Theatre Center for Theatre Production – a 75,000 square foot facility adjacent to the theatres themselves. On their two stages – the 824 seat Hubbard Stage and the 310 seat Neuhaus Stage – they present a repertoire of eleven productions each season, including a new production of A Christmas Carol. The Alley is also home to educational programs, where they connect with the youth of the city and state through programs such as From Stage to Page and HYPE (Houston Young Playwrights Exchange) and the Young Performers Studio. The Alley has earned a national and international reputation for artistic achievement, including the Tony Award, and Alley artists have garnered praise from audiences across the country. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and new Managing Director Dean Gladden, the Alley is moving forward to increase its reach into the community, to further its collaboration with the best theatre artists working today, and to encourage and cultivate the new voices, new work, new artists of the American theatre. During the 2008-2009 season, Alley Theatre put on 11 productions with a total attendance of 190,673 people.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010, Alley Theatre's program expenses were:

Production and Artistic	9,083,578
Marketing and advertising	2,201,007
Total Program Expenses:	$11,284,585

Chief Executive : Gregory Boyd, Artistic Director

Compensation*:

$322,788

Chair of the Board: Board of Directors
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Attorney

Board Size: 47

Paid Staff Size: 150

*Compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

direct mail, telephone, invitations to fund raising events, grant proposals, internet

Fund raising costs were 15% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $5,867,422, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Alley Theatre's audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010.

Source of Funds
Ticket Sales	7,364,998
Contributions	4,833,885
Investment Return	1,165,063
Special Events	1,033,537
Ticket Fees	639,064
Concessions/Store	234,932
Other Income	198,497
Cost of goods sold	-93,231
Cost of direct donor benefits	-300,304
Total Income	$15,076,441

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 79%  Fund Raising: 6%  Administrative: 15%

Total income				$15,076,441
	Program expenses			$11,284,585
	Fund raising expenses			898,748
	Administrative expenses			2,108,144
Total expenses				$14,291,477
Income in Excess of Expenses				784,964
Beginning net assets				40,300,108
Ending net assets				41,085,072
Total liabilities				3,394,316
Total assets				$44,479,388