Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC
ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,516 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($28,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $337k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $64k
What Acting Out Theater Company Inc does
Mission
Acting out theater company has brought theater to the merrimack valley for the past 20 years linda began acting out in 2002 in hopes of creating a non-competitive or intimidating theater experience. We have continued and expanded our mission to provide opportunities for people of all ages, ability statuses, skill levels, and backgrounds to become involved in theater as performers, crew members, administrative assistants, or even as the audience we serve our community by providing theater programs and performances within our own facility, instruction and direction within local schools, and workshops held at other non-profits. We strive to make theater an inclusive and fun experience for anyone who wishes to join, making no distinctions between paying and scholarship participants. Acting out's goal is to expand the merrimack valley's cultural scene while rewarding local talent, young and old, with the opportunity to be part of the theater experience.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Theatre classes and workshops offered to children and adults in the community while providing mentoring opportunities to teens and young adults. Participants focus on teamwork while enhancing self-esteem and self-confidence in a supportive environment.
$237,433 spent$253,294 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $237,433.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $38k to $69k (+83%).
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: 2023 7% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $7k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC’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
ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 53% · 2022 37% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
93% of ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC: 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 ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC?
- ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,516 to it, the largest being ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($28,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $47,516 in grants to ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC?
- ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $28,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing