Arizona · Nonprofit
ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS
ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being ORNEST FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $420k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Arizona Theater Matters does
Mission
At Arizona Theatre Matters, we begin with the conviction that artists are our teachers. As apprentices to the people with whom we work, we approach every collaboration ready to have our assumptions challenged and our imaginations expanded. We build theatre and educational programs that embrace the many ways humans communicate, learn, and create. Sound, sign, captioning, performance, conversation, and lived experience are woven into our creative process because every way of communicating has the power to deepen the art. By making room for every artist and every way of creating, more people become collaborators, the art grows bolder, and audiences encounter stories-and one another-in entirely new ways.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arizona Theatre Matters' primary program service is the creation and free public distribution of professionally produced, fully accessible digital theatre. The organization develops and releases original and classic theatrical works designed from inception to be accessible to Blind and Deaf audiences, integrating audio description, American Sign Language performance, and inclusive casting practices as core artistic elements rather than accommodations. During the reporting period, Arizona Theatre Matters produced and released multiple digital theatre works via its public YouTube channel, reaching a global audience of more than 100,000 subscribers and tens of thousands of individual viewers. Productions featured Deaf sign language performers on screen, Blind voice actors in audio roles, and creative teams led by artists from the communities served. All programming was offered free of charge to the public, removing economic, geographic, and physical barriers to participation. The organization's work prioritizes audiences historically excluded from live theatre, including Blind, Deaf, low-income, rural, and home-based viewers, while also serving educators, libraries, and community…
$388,968 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $388,968.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $140 to $32k (+22898%).
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: 2024 8% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 3 of the last 7 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS’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.
Where its funders are
ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS: 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 ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS?
- ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being ORNEST FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,000 in grants to ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS?
- ORNEST FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIZONA THEATER MATTERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing