Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES
ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $867,525 to it, the largest being WIDENER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION IN AID OF HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ($276,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $489k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $868k
- Net assets
- $420k
What Acting Without Boundaries does
Mission
Transforming lives and building self-esteem in an empowering community of people with physical disabilities through theater that celebrates ability. Acting Without Boundaries lives out its mission by: challenging perceptions about people with disabilities and their capabilities; producing professional quality theater in nontraditional ways; teaching performing arts skills through year round programs and workshops that build confidence on stage and beyond; creating a community of support for people with physical disabilities and their families; giving back to the community through performances and presentations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The goal of Acting Without Boundaries (awb) program is to provide people of all ages who have a physical disability the opportunity to pursue their love of acting and performing while building their belief in themselves and their abilities. Monthly workshops are conducted by professional actors and theater educators. Participants perform on stage and receive training in memorizing and reciting monologues, acting in plays, singing, and various improvisational techniques. An annual major production is staged for the community following an intensive four day workshop in the fall. The melodies program (formally known as kids are kids) is crucial for awb to live out its mission of improving community awareness, acceptance, access and inclusion for people with physical disabilities. The program is comprised of a robust schedule which includes disability outreach, awareness and education workshops and panel discussions at colleges and universities, elementary and middle-school assemblies mini community performances, retirement facilities and other community centers. Awb also plans field trips to places like the academy of music and the walnut street theatre to provide various experiences.
$330,919 spent$305,115 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $330,919.
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 2020 to 2021, from $218k to $381k (+74%).
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.
105% of ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $12k → $147k.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 WITHOUT BOUNDARIES’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 WITHOUT BOUNDARIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 41% · 2019 62% · 2020 56% · 2021 25% · 2022 41% · 2023 48% — 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
46% of ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
86% of ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 WITHOUT BOUNDARIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES
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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: 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 WITHOUT BOUNDARIES?
- ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $867,525 to it, the largest being WIDENER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION IN AID OF HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ($276,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $867,525 in grants to ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES?
- WIDENER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION IN AID OF HANDICAPPED CHILDREN is the largest funder on record, with $276,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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