New Mexico · Nonprofit
ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE
ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE (New Mexico) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,501 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,150). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $933k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $724k
What Albuquerque Little Theatre does
Mission
To cultivate appreciation of the theatre arts through active participation in fully-staged productions, and to nurture aspiring talent through innovative educational programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Albuquerque Little Theatre (alt), founded in 1930, is one of the oldest continuously operating community theatres in the southwest. Alt produces a season of full-scale broadway musicals, comedies, dramas, and special events that serve thousands of audience members each year. Productions typically run for three to four weeks and provide opportunities for both emerging and experienced performers, designers, technicians, and volunteers to participate in live theatrical arts. A small professional staff works alongside hundreds of community volunteers each year to present high-quality theatrical experiences while fostering creativity, education, collaboration, and community engagement. Alt also provides educational programming, including classes, workshops, camps, and youth opportunities that encourage participation in the performing arts for individuals of all ages and experience levels. Alt plays an important role in the cultural enrichment and well-being of the albuquerque community. More than 85% of operating expenses are supported through earned revenue, including ticket sales, educational programs, rentals, concessions, and merchandising. Public donations help maintain alt's…
$979,323 spent$904,582 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $979,323.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.7M to $1.3M (−23%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE’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 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $232.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE’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
ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
68% of ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from New Mexico funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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
ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $39k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE: 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 ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE?
- ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE (New Mexico) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,501 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,150). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $38,501 in grants to ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALBUQUERQUE LITTLE THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 5 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