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Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Please see schedule o for the complete mission statement.BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE creates ambitious theatre that entertains and challenges its audiences, provokes civic engagement, and inspires people to experience the world in new and surprising ways.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $165,251 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $175,251 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $27,759 |
| THE NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER | $27,759 |
| OAKLAND THEATER PROJECT | $26,059 |
| THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY | $17,759 |
| OAKLAND CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND | $14,361 |
| SAN FRANCISCO YOUTH THEATRE | $12,759 |
| DANCE BRIGADE | $7,759 |
| MAGIC THEATRE INC | $7,759 |
| AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE | $7,759 |
| THEATRE BAY AREA | $7,759 |
| ZACCHO DANCE THEATRE | $7,759 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.
Aurora Theatre Company inspires new audiences and longtime theatre lovers alike with the visceral power of live theatre. Our venues, the most intimate professional stages in the Bay Area, highlight great acting, nuanced language, and an…
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
The description of Cutting Ball Theater's mission starts on Form 990 Page 1 and continues on Schedule O
Provide performing arts curriculum to residents of the Bay Area, ages 6 to adult. Produce two mainstage performances per year with eight shows each. Provide four summer camps, producing four additional shows, for grades 1-9. Curriculum…
PYT is committed to providing an enriching theatrical experience within our community and schools to demonstrate and reinforce the positive role the arts play in academic success.
Promoting interest in theater arts, striving for excellence in production and education.
Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.
Operating out of an old can factory in the Mission District of San Francisco, Z Space now activates two performance spaces, an 85-seat black box and a 244-seat main stage, with a warehouse aesthetic and an adventurous edge.
Silicon valley shakespeare is innovating the classics through unique and relevant theatrical experiences that illuminate and inspire modern audiences.
CCCT is a nonprofit community theater with its permanent home in West Contra Costa County. Our mission is to provide affordable, high-quality entertainment to residents throughout the East Bay and provide training in live performing arts…
The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oakland Theater Project and the most unlike its peers is Zaccho Sf. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds New Conservatory Theatre Center ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND THEATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO YOUTH THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Dance Brigade ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZACCHO SF ↗
- Who funds MAGIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Theatre Bay Area ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Gerbode Foundation · Center for Cultural Innovation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Nicholson Family Foundation · The Sam Mazza Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Distracted Globe Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Berkeley Repertory Theatre funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.