Maryland · Nonprofit
ARTS ON STAGE LTD
ARTS ON STAGE LTD (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,010 to it, the largest being REA CHARITABLE TRUST ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $810k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $516k
What Arts on Stage Ltd does
Mission
The mission of arts on stage, ltd., is to artistically, culturally and educationally enrich the minds of children through live, professional theatre productions. We hope to stimulate, encourage, educate, and promote interest in live theatre of all types in children of all ages. Our media includes theatrical plays, music, dance, drama, and storytelling, which are all accompanied by quality study guides to further advance the educational components of each presentation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Arts on stage artistically, culturally and educationally enriches the minds of children through live, professional theatre arts productions and promotes interest in theatre arts of all types, to children of all ages, at an affordable price and has been doing so for over 30 years. We believe that exposing children to quality, professional arts during their school aged years will help them to grow to appreciate the arts all of their lives. The long term objective of our program is to instill in these students a lifetime appreciation of the arts. Teachers/students may choose between our virtual field trips viewed at their leisure or they may choose to the experience of attending professionally presented artistic theatre productions in professional theatre settings, using full sets, costumes, lighting and professional actors.
$643,220 spent$764,235 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $643,220.
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 2024 to 2025, from $401k to $516k (+29%).
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 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 35% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of ARTS ON STAGE LTD’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. 1 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Jamie Papas
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $5k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ARTS ON STAGE LTD’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
ARTS ON STAGE LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
ARTS ON STAGE LTD draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ARTS ON STAGE LTD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARTS ON STAGE LTD
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 Maryland
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
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 ARTS ON STAGE LTD: 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 ARTS ON STAGE LTD?
- ARTS ON STAGE LTD (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,010 to it, the largest being REA CHARITABLE TRUST ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS ON STAGE LTD have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $60,010 in grants to ARTS ON STAGE LTD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS ON STAGE LTD?
- REA CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS ON STAGE LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 3 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