Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY
ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,854,289 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($1,498,600). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Arden Theatre Company does
Mission
Founded in 1988, Arden Theatre Company is a professional regional theatre company in old city, philadelphia, dedicated to bringing to life great stories by great storytellers on the stage, in the classroom, and in the community. We have received numerous honors including: 89 awards and 455 nominations from the barrymore awards for excellence in theatre; the prestigious "great friend to kids award" from the please touch museum for arden children's theatre work; and the "keystone of accessibility" by the commonwealth of pennsylvania for our efforts to make our work more accessible and inclusive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In our most recently completed 2024/25 season, we presented five mainstage productions and two children's theatre productions, for a total of 393 performances produced, 261 theatre professionals employed, and more than 94,000 theatregoers welcomed through our doors. Our mainstage season featured potus by selena fillinger, intimate apparel by lynn nottage, holy grail of memphis by michael hollinger, august wilson's king hedley ii, and jonathan larson's tony award-winning musical, rent. For arden children's theatre, we produced peter pan, based on the beloved children's book by j.m. Barrie, and the hobbit, also an adaptation of the classical fantasy novel by j.r.r. Tolkien.
$5,079,291 spent$3,171,024 earned by the program98% of program spendingIn alignment with our goal of making arts education accessible, we continued arden for all programming in 14 local schools, benefiting 3,694 unique students, 2,198 through afa residency (in-school) and 1,496 through afa stage (ticket access), and distributing 4,192 show-related books.
$75,461 spent1% of program spendingOur arden drama school (ads) welcomed 1,648 students to ads and arden summer camp combined during the 2024/25 season, distributed over $35k in scholarships to 47 students. Alongside our youth education programs, we continued to invest in the arden professional apprentices program, with three future theatre leaders matriculating through the season-long apprenticeship program.
$8,186 spent$338,149 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,162,938.
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 $13M to $14M (+12%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 25% · 2022 41% · 2023 0% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 14 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $358k → $1.0M.
16 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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
ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 42% · 2019 27% · 2020 27% · 2021 38% · 2022 27% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
58% of ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
67% of ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record — $90k federal, $10k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$90k
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$10k
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 ARDEN 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 Pennsylvania
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
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARDEN 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 ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY?
- ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,854,289 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($1,498,600). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $6,854,289 in grants to ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,498,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY 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 79 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