Georgia · Nonprofit
Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc
Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,483,218 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($663,350). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc does
Mission
Production of live theater performances and education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Atlanta Shakespeare company (ASC) is in production 51 weeks out of the year, presenting a different play every month, for a total of 330 mainstage performances. We presented seven plays by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and Love's Labor's Lost. We also presented A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and The Three Musketeers by Ken Ludwig. Continued on Schedule O.
$1,833,824 spent$1,037,745 earned by the program100% of program spendingEducational Programming: Includes our Shakespeare:60 series, and our Shakespeare Junior shows as well as in-class Playshops, school-day Residencies, Summer camps for rising 2nd to rising 8th grade, and in-house homeschool "Shakesploration" Days. Our 60- minute digital productions include R&J:60, Macbeth:60 and Othello. We offer digital study guides for every core curriculum play and provide professional learning workshops for teachers. During 2023-2024, we offered student matinee performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Benedetto Robinson's Dracula, the Failings of Man, The Tempest, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Romeo and Juliet, and The Merchant of Venice. Continued on Sch O.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,833,824.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.4M to $4.1M (+20%).
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 5% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 7% · 2021 31% · 2022 48% · 2023 6% · 2024 6% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of Atlanta Shakespeare Company 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. 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 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $190k → $225k.
14 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
82% 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 Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 28% · 2019 42% · 2020 22% · 2021 25% · 2022 19% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“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
41% of Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
74% of Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc'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 $648k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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
Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc 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 Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 Atlanta Shakespeare Company 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% 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 Atlanta Shakespeare Company 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 Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc?
- Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,483,218 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($663,350). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,483,218 in grants to Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $663,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 37 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