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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.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $165,251, the rows itemized in this filing. The $175,251 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $126k
$12,759
Median grant
1
States reached
$87M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER$27,759
MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY$27,759
OAKLAND THEATER PROJECT$26,059
THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY$17,759
OAKLAND CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND$14,361
SAN FRANCISCO YOUTH THEATRE$12,759
ZACCHO DANCE THEATRE$7,759
DANCE BRIGADE$7,759
AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE$7,759
THEATRE BAY AREA$7,759
MAGIC THEATRE INC$7,759
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY: $18k → 8%OAKLAND CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND: $14k → 10%ZACCHO DANCE THEATRE: $8k → 10%OAKLAND THEATER PROJECT: $26k → 10%THE NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER: $28k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO YOUTH THEATRE: $13k → 10%AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE: $8k → 10%MAGIC THEATRE INC: $8k → 10%THEATRE BAY AREA: $8k → 10%DANCE BRIGADE: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company

Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.

Arts & Culture
2
The Aurora Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Marin Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Bay Area Educational Theater Company

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Cutting Ball Theater

The description of Cutting Ball Theater's mission starts on Form 990 Page 1 and continues on Schedule O

Arts & Culture
6
Hillbarn Theatre Inc

Promoting interest in theater arts, striving for excellence in production and education.

Arts & Culture
7
Peninsula Youth Theatre

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.

Unclassified
8
The Studio Theatre Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
9
The Z Space Studio

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Artists Repertory Theatre

Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.

Arts & Culture
11
Bay Area Theatresports dba Bats Improv

BATS Improv is dedicated to the performance, study, development, and promotion of improvisational theatre.

Arts & Culture
12
Latino Theater Company

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Conservatory Theatre Center; the most unlike its peers is Dance Brigade. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
1/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New Conservatory Theatre Center: $27,759 · Arts & CultureNew Conservatory Theatre CenterOAKLAND THEATER PROJECT: $26,059 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND THEATER PROJECTTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY: $17,759 · Arts & CultureTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEYSAN FRANCISCO YOUTH THEATRE: $12,759 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO YOUTH THEATREAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $7,759 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATIONMAGIC THEATRE INC: $7,759 · Arts & CultureMAGIC THEATRE INCTheatre Bay Area: $7,759 · Arts & CultureTheatre Bay AreaMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $27,759 · OtherMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPAN…Dance Brigade: $7,759 · OtherDance BrigadeOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc: $14,361 · Recreation & SportsOakland C…ZACCHO SF: $7,759 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$107,613Other$35,518Recreation & Sports$14,361Philanthropy$7,759

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Conservatory Theatre Center: $27,759 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOAKLAND THEATER PROJECT: $26,059 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY: $17,759 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc: $14,361 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO YOUTH THEATRE: $12,759 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDance Brigade: $7,759 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $7,759 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGIC THEATRE INC: $7,759 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTheatre Bay Area: $7,759 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The William & Flora H…Fleishhacker Foundati…The Zellerbach Family…Gerbode FoundationCenter for Cultural I…Walter and Elise Haas…Kenneth Rainin Founda…The Shubert Foundatio…The Nicholson Family …The Sam Mazza Foundat…Phyllis C Wattis Foun…Distracted Globe Foun…
The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Berkeley Repertory Theatre funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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