Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
1ST STREET PLAYERS
1ST STREET PLAYERS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,833 to it, the largest being RAYNIER INSTITUTE & FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $39k
What 1st Street Players does
Mission
1st Street Players uplifts the community through imaginative theatrical productions and transformative educational programming. We strive to foster a safe space for artists and audiences to connect, collaborate, and create.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The 1st Street Players of birdsboro, pa operate primarily as a not-for-profit community theater. The company produces an average of five to seven shows per year, with an emphasis on community involvement and theater education for all. These shows include, but are not limited to: musicals, plays, youth theater, staged readings, works by local authors, cabaret events, and concerts. Since the company's founding in 2015, it is estimated that over 15,000 persons have benefitted from the services of the theater, including actors, patrons, community members, and volunteers.
$52,335 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,335.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $16k to $39k (+147%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
16% of 1ST STREET PLAYERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $62.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 1ST STREET PLAYERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
1ST STREET PLAYERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
1ST STREET PLAYERS draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $333 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
1ST STREET PLAYERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like 1ST STREET PLAYERS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 1ST STREET PLAYERS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 1ST STREET PLAYERS?
- 1ST STREET PLAYERS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,833 to it, the largest being RAYNIER INSTITUTE & FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 1ST STREET PLAYERS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,833 in grants to 1ST STREET PLAYERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 1ST STREET PLAYERS?
- RAYNIER INSTITUTE & FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 1ST STREET PLAYERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing