Georgia · Nonprofit
AURORA THEATRE INC
AURORA THEATRE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,542,879 to it, the largest being PEACH STATE FCU CARES FOUNDATION INC ($367,300). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $859k
What Aurora Theatre Inc does
Mission
The aurora theatre is committed to producing quality, professional theatre for the southeast, north georgia, and our most ardent supporters, the residents of gwinnett county. We will serve these communities by offering entertainment that nurtures a love of theatre and develops a new generation of theatre goers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Aurora Theatre Signature Series provides professional, fully produced mainstage theatrical productions presented to the public throughout the year. During this reporting period, the program produced five fully staged productions, each running approximately 20-26 performances, serving an estimated 6,500 patrons per show. The program's objective is to provide high-quality theatre that enriches the community, supports professional artists, and increases access to live performance. In the short term, it delivers a full season of diverse productions engaging local audiences; in the long term, it sustains year-round professional theatre and strengthens regional arts access and infrastructure. Aurora Theatre's Presenting Series features guest artists and touring productions presented to the public. These performances expand access to diverse artistic experiences, support cultural enrichment, and enhance community engagement in the performing arts. Aurora Theatre Academy provides educational theatre programming for children, teens, and adults through classes, workshops, and seasonal camps. These programs offer instruction in acting, musical theatre, improvisation, and performance skills,…
$3,627,937 spent$2,552,041 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,627,937.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.8M to $10M (+75%).
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 0% · 2019 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of AURORA THEATRE 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. 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.
Board chair
Amanda Sutt
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $17k → $334k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia). These are real filings, and they are not money AURORA THEATRE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AURORA THEATRE INC’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
AURORA THEATRE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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 86% · 2018 76% · 2019 51% · 2020 71% · 2021 23% · 2022 41% · 2023 33% — 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
45% of AURORA THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
73% of AURORA THEATRE INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
AURORA THEATRE INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AURORA THEATRE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 AURORA THEATRE 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AURORA THEATRE 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 AURORA THEATRE INC?
- AURORA THEATRE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,542,879 to it, the largest being PEACH STATE FCU CARES FOUNDATION INC ($367,300). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AURORA THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,542,879 in grants to AURORA THEATRE INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AURORA THEATRE INC?
- PEACH STATE FCU CARES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $367,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AURORA THEATRE 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 21 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