California · Nonprofit
ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY
ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,350 to it, the largest being ARGYROS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($55,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $182k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $218k
- Net assets
- $44k
What Act Out Theatre Company does
Mission
Act Out Theatre Companys mission is to deliver high-caliber theatrical productions multi-disciplinary arts education and transformative youth development initiatives throughout Southern California. We empower youth and adults from all backgrounds by providing accessible opportunities to engage grow and lead in the performing arts. Our goal is to nurture emerging talent spark creativity and keep live theatre vibrant and inclusive in Long Beach and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provider of theatrical productions to youth in inner-city and urban areas. This includes 19 public theatrical performances throughout the community in 2025. This program impacted app. 350 students in 2025 and app. 3500 community residents who attended such productions in 2025.
$241,289 spent99% of program spendingProvider of low-cost arts education workshops in the form of after-school programs as well as on-site summer arts camp programs.
$2,606 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $243,895.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $115k to $47k (−60%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Travis Wade
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $23k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY’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
ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 68% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY: 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 ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY?
- ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,350 to it, the largest being ARGYROS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($55,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $218,350 in grants to ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY?
- ARGYROS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACT OUT THEATRE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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