2025-12-02T17:39:40-06:00 2025-06-30 WITHUMSMITHBROWN PC 1411 BROADWAY 9TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10018 990 2024-07-01 221950890 COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC % ADAM PHILIPSON COUN 7322248778 99 MONMOUTH STREET RED BANK NJ 07701 ADAM PHILIPSON CEO & president 7322248778 2025-12-02 true true CATHERINE BENDALL CPA P00521196 2127519100 2025-12-02 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z ADAM PHILIPSON 99 MONMOUTH STREET RED BANK NJ 07701 64171536 false X THEBASIE.ORG X 1972 NJ TO INSPIRE, EDUCATE AND ENTERTAIN THROUGH ITS DISTINCT AND ENGAGING CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC OFFERINGS THAT EMBRACE AND AMPLIFY THE DIVERSITY OF THE REGION. 38 38 419 38 153113 0 7182287 6524989 20666447 20488437 1060954 1035359 188910 153113 29098598 28201898 0 0 0 0 6828454 6983004 0 0 1631227 18962460 18987815 25790914 25970819 3307684 2231079 73513850 74408996 30640579 29060635 42873271 45348361 X THE COUNT BASIE CENTER FOR THE ARTS IS NEW JERSEY'S PREMIER CENTER FOR THE CULTURAL ARTS, DEDICATED TO FOSTERING POWERFUL, INCLUSIVE ARTISTIC EXPERIENCES AND CREATIVE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS. THE BASIE MISSION IS TO INSPIRE, EDUCATE AND ENTERTAIN THROUGH ITS DISTINCT AND ENGAGING CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC OFFERINGS THAT EMBRACE AND AMPLIFY THE DIVERSITY OF THE REGION. AS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, THE BASIE IS COMMITTED TO ENRICHING THE COMMUNITY'S QUALITY OF LIFE BY GENERATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS, PARTNERING WITH SCHOOLS, COLLABORATING WITH OTHER MISSION-BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND DRIVING REGIONAL ECONOMIC PROSPERITY. false false 22315411 20641550 The Count Basie Center for the Arts continues to persevere in its mission to create shared educational, artistic, and community experiences that ignite curiosity, understanding, and joy. Our responsive, inclusive programming continued to reflect the diverse spirit and aspirations of Basie Center patrons, students, artists and staff, welcoming them to participate as their most authentic selves. In FY2025, all facets of the Count Basie Center Academy - now renamed in honor of philanthropists Fran and Paul Turner - finally joined beneath one roof as part of the Grunin Arts Education Building. The Academy welcomed nearly 1,500 students in FY2025, engaging them with a variety of experiences - from mainstage productions like "Something Rotten", "Shrek The Musical Jr.", plus Disney's "The Jungle Book"Newies", - to acting, dancing and vocal lessons, instruction in auditioning for television and film, and more. At the Count Basie Center Conservatory of Music, 473 students received regular instruction in piano, classical guitar, woodwinds, strings and other instruments, in addition to group experiences such as ensembles and orchestra. In FY2025, 345 students were scholarship recipients. Providing these scholarships and continuing to remove barriers to participation in the arts is a hallmark of the Basie Center's Forever For Everyone endowment campaign, which has raised more than $17 million towards its $20m goal. 'Forever For Everyone also supports the Basie Center Fund for Strategic Growth, which Provides funds to launch new programs, especially those which deepen our commitment to cultural competency, racial equity, and social inclusion. In line with our continued focus on promoting community and internal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts, the Count Basie Center continued its efforts to train staffers to conduct DEI onboarding efforts, continued its partnership with Two River Theater to train and maintain a bilingual workforce, and continued implementations as recommended by the staff-wide DEI Task Force. Our DEI work helps inform the ways in which we engage the community through our performing arts and education programs, including events celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Cinco de Mayo and Dia de los Muertos. 50+ area students participated in the annual, free Louis and Gia Maria Prima Music Camp, with many of these students having never previously picked up a musical instrument. The Count Basie Center Gospel Choir headlined Basie Center stages and numerous public events, while our partners with Calpulli Mexican Dance Company continued its onsite classes and performances in promotion of traditional Mexican folkloric dance. In September 2024, the Basie Center held its first-ever Hispanic Film Festival, drawing fans, industry leaders and aspiring film and acting professionals to Basie Center Cinemas for three days of screenings, talkbacks and career workshops. The Basie Center's Breakthrough Filmmakers Fest, celebrating the state's growing community of amateur filmmakers, saw a flurry of submissions, while expanding into a year-long effort with a series of online workshops / seminars and screenings, culminating with the annual onsite festival, allowing students to see their work on the big screen while meeting and networking industry professionals. Phoenix Productions, the Basie's community theatre company, presented five mainstage presentations ("School Of Rock", "West Side Story", "Elf: The Musical", "Kinky Boots"The Color Purple"), plus productions of Bat Boy: The Musical and Peter and the Starcatcher at The Vogel. The Color Purple, featuring Phoenix's first-ever all-Black cast, took home Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Lead Actress, Outstanding Supporting Actress, Outstanding Scenic Design and Outstanding Costume Design at the New Jersey Community Theatre Association's annual Perry Awards. FY2025 was a profitable year for the company, which continues to raise the bar on accessibility and inclusion for area actors, pit musicians and stagecraft personnel. Lastly, more than 7,000 students visited the Count Basie Center campus as part of our celebrated school show program, which welcomed students from 106 schools throughout the state - from as far away as Hudson, Somerset, Union counties, plus nearby Monmouth, Ocean and Middlesex. 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PART V, LINE 4: THE ENDOWMENT BALANCE HELD BY THE ORGANIZATION AS OF JUNE 30, 2025 CONSISTS OF: - ARTS EDUCATION ENDOWMENT OF $861,568 - TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION BY PROVIDING VALUABLE AND LIFE-ENHANCING EDUCATION PROGRAMS. - FOREVER FOR EVERYONE ENDOWMENT OF $3,954,632 - TO OFFER SCHOLARSHIPS IN PERPETUITY FOR THE BASIE CENTER ACADEMY PROGRAMS; TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION WITHIN THE PERFORMING ARTS; TO FUND THE ORGANIZATION'S GOALS FOR STRATEGIC GROWTH; AND TO CREATE AN EMERGENCY FUND FOR UPKEEP OF ITS CAMPUS, INCLUDING ITS 96-YEAR-OLD HISTORIC THEATER. - CHARLIE PUTH PERFORMANCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF $83,252 - TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDENTS AT THE COUNT BASIE CENTER ACADEMY. 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