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Street Theatre Clothing, LTD · Donations
Mission-Driven Giving

Donations.


People over profits begins with the people we employ. Every gift to Street Theatre Clothing, LTD goes to work the moment it arrives — building the jobs, the training, and the floor where those jobs happen.

Why your gift matters.

Street Theatre Clothing exists to place people over profits. Our mission is to manufacture high-quality, custom-branded apparel while creating sustainable employment pathways for individuals with disabilities, survivors of domestic violence, and justice-impacted individuals in active recovery. Jobs that pay. Training that transfers. A workplace built for the people who walk into it, not around them.

Public support is what moves that mission from a commitment on paper to a production line, a paycheck, and a person going home at the end of a shift knowing the work was theirs. Every donation we receive is deployed directly into the five mission categories that make this company possible — workforce, equipment, accessibility, safety, and the day-to-day operations that carry the work forward.

We receive gifts at every size. A ten-dollar gift and a ten-thousand-dollar gift are recorded in the same ledger, acknowledged with the same letter, and put to work on the same mission. What counts is the choice to stand with the people this company was built to serve.

How your gift is used

Five mission categories.

Donor funds are deployed across five categories. Every annual donor report breaks out the dollar figures by category, with explanation where amounts shift materially between periods.

Category I

Workforce wages & training.

Market-rate wages and structured training for individuals with disabilities, survivors of domestic violence, and justice-impacted individuals in active recovery — during the pre-revenue ramp and through production stabilization.

Category II

Equipment.

Commercial DTF, screen-print, and 15-needle embroidery systems that make STC biddable on the widest possible range of government, corporate, and community apparel work.

Category III

Accessibility infrastructure.

Workstation design, adaptive tooling, and facility modifications that let a mixed-ability workforce produce to commercial-grade standards without compromise to output quality or timeline.

Category IV

Safety & compliance.

Occupational safety, regulatory compliance, insurance, and the documentation infrastructure that keeps the Company honest with clients, regulators, and its own workforce.

Category V

Sustaining operations.

Materials, utilities, and rent during the period between first production and reliable contract revenue. The gap that ends the majority of mission-driven manufacturers if it is not covered deliberately.

Tax treatment — the honest answer.

Gifts to Street Theatre Clothing, LTD are not tax-deductible. STC is a for-profit Nevada LLC. The IRS permits charitable deductions only for gifts to qualified §501(c)(3) organizations, and STC is not one. We say this plainly on every donation surface so that no donor gives under a mistaken impression.

Tax-deductible giving will be available through our sister entity, The Gregg-Haynes Foundation, Inc. — a Nevada nonprofit corporation — once its 501(c)(3) determination letter is issued by the Internal Revenue Service. Until that letter arrives, donors seeking a charitable deduction should wait, direct their gift to another qualified charity, or note their intention to re-direct upon approval.

Our standard for receiving gifts.

Street Theatre Clothing, LTD believes in the ethics codes and donor rights framework published by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. We reference their publicly available guidelines as the discipline we hold ourselves to when receiving gifts, and we encourage every donor to read those guidelines in their original form, directly on the AFP website.

The two documents we point to are the Donor Bill of Rights, which describes what donors are entitled to expect, and the AFP Code of Ethical Standards, which describes how a responsible organization conducts solicitation, acknowledgement, and stewardship. Both documents are published by AFP and accessible directly on the AFP website at the links above.

Street Theatre Clothing is not a member of, affiliated with, endorsed by, or an agent of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. We do not speak on behalf of AFP. We speak only for ourselves, in our own words, in stating that we believe in the guidelines AFP has published and that we voluntarily reference them in how we run our own program.

Principle I · Honest Disclosure

Honest disclosure.

Every donation surface states three facts before a gift is accepted: STC is a for-profit Nevada LLC, the gift is not tax-deductible, and the exact mission use the funds will support. No euphemism. No charity language borrowed where it does not belong.

Principle II · Mission Fidelity

Mission fidelity.

Donor funds are spent only on the five mission categories documented on this page. Any material change in deployment is disclosed to donors of record in the next annual donor report.

Principle III · Privacy

Donor privacy.

Donor identity, contact information, and gift history are held as confidential records. They are not sold, rented, traded, or shared outside of the STC finance function and audit process. Donors may request the removal of their name from any public recognition at any time.

Principle IV · Accountability

Accountability.

Every gift is receipted within five business days. Every donor receives an annual report breaking out the dollar deployment by category. Donor questions are answered in writing within 48 hours.

Read the source documents directly on the AFP website: Donor Bill of Rights (PDF) · Code of Ethical Standards · afpglobal.org. These are the authoritative texts. Read them from the source.

“Pay the tax, disclose without euphemism, and treat every donor dollar like it carries the weight of the people it is meant to serve.”

— STC Donations Doctrine

Make a gift.

Donations are processed securely through PayPal and deposited directly into the Street Theatre Clothing, LTD business account. All major payment types are accepted — PayPal balance, Venmo, debit card, credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal Pay Later, and direct bank transfer (ACH). PayPal handles card processing and carries the PCI-DSS compliance for the transaction. STC does not see, store, or transmit card numbers. A secure receipt is issued automatically, with an STC acknowledgement letter following within five business days.

Questions, receipts, and records.

Donor questions are answered in writing within 48 hours. Please reach us through our contact page. The STC Donations Binder (v1.0, April 2026) documents our own internal governance, mission-category deployment, and stewardship practices. The AFP Donor Bill of Rights and Code of Ethical Standards are referenced by title and link only — the authoritative texts live on the AFP website and are not redistributed here.

Payment security is handled by PayPal under its own SSL encryption and PCI-DSS Level 1 certification. STC does not receive or retain card data. Questions regarding payment security should be directed to PayPal; questions regarding how a gift is recorded, acknowledged, or deployed should be directed to STC.