Kentucky · Nonprofit
ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC
ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,929,374 to it, the largest being BROWN-FORMAN FOUNDATION ($1,375,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Actors Theatre of Louisville Inc does
Mission
Actors theatre unlocks human potential, builds community and enriches quality of life by engaging people in theatre that reflects the wonder and complexity of our time.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Actors theatre of louisville unlocks human potential, builds community, and enriches quality of life by engaging people in theatre that reflects the wonder and complexity of our time. Actors theatre of louisville was formed in 1964 with the merging of actors, inc. And theatre louisville. The theatre established a complex in the original bank of louisville building (the third-oldest building still standing in downtown louisville), and still occupies this building with three fully operating theatre venues.throughout its history, actors theatre of louisville has led the way in artistic innovation and expression, which has resulted in the theatre receiving the three most prestigious awards given to regional theatres: the margo jones award, the shubert foundation's james n. Vaughan memorial award, and a tony award. Actors theatre of louisville primarily serves louisville, ky as well as southern indiana and seeks to celebrate and serve our region as the state theatre of kentucky.this season we featured several fully produced productions including dracula, flex, and hershel and the hanukkah goblins. Education and community engagement initiatives are integral to actors theatre of…
$3,870,280 spent$356,461 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,870,280.
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 2017 to 2018, from $25M to $21M (−15%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 29% · 2022 32% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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 12 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $122k → $1.2M.
7 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.1M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fund for the Arts Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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
ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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 41% · 2018 42% · 2019 39% · 2020 36% · 2021 27% · 2022 40% · 2023 57% — 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.
How long its funders stay
32% of ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $427k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$300k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE 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 ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC?
- ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,929,374 to it, the largest being BROWN-FORMAN FOUNDATION ($1,375,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $4,929,374 in grants to ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC?
- BROWN-FORMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 42 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