Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks
AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,616 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($79,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $115k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $141k
- Net assets
- $18k
What AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks does
Mission
Playwright development and support
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Out of Ink ten-minute play showcase (titled NOT IN STEP for 2025) is our annual in-person production of eight ten-minute plays written by members in our Weekend Fling 48-hour writing event. There were six performances (340 attended) and scripts of the plays were published. Costs are for production and rehearsal venues, personnel, production materials, printing of marketing materials, programs, and scripts.
$19,506 spent50% of program spendingWorkshops - quarterly seminars on the craft and business of playwriting. (4 workshops; 33 attendees)
$7,248 spent18% of program spendingFronteraFest - A five-week-long performance festival featuring over 100 performances of varying lengths and formats. ScriptWorks partners with Hyde Park Theatre on the festival. ($1000 granted in Short Fringe Commissions, which pre-dates our role as co-producer; remaining expenses are for personnel). Attendance over 1800.
$7,225 spentof which $1,000 as grants18% of program spendingSalon Readings - informal monthly readings which allow members to hear early-draft plays read by actors. Expenses are actor stipends and venue rental. (10 Salons; 124 attendees)
$2,358 spent6% of program spendingRevision Resource funding - $500 awarded to 1 member each quarter (depending on applications and cahs flow) to develop an existing script. There were two awards in this fiscal year - $1000.
$1,000 spentof which $1,000 as grants3% of program spendingGroundwork Grant - $500 awarded to 1 member each quarter to complete the first draft of a play. There were two award in this fiscal year - $1000 (awards are dependent on applications and cash flow)
$1,000 spentof which $1,000 as grants3% of program spendingMeet & Greet - our annual kick-off event, where members meet to hear about upcoming plans and share work written over the summer. (40 attendees) Expenses are for digital invitation, venue and refreshments.
$475 spent1% of program spendingNewsletter - weekly email newsletter sent to members with ScriptWorks news and local and national submission opportunities. Expenses are for bulk email service and Playwrights' Center membership.
$370 spent1% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,182.
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 $23k to $47k (+101%).
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.
66% of AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jenine DOC Krueger
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $64 → $7k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks’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
AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 53% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
82% of AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks?
- AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,616 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($79,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $140,616 in grants to AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks?
- GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $79,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS dba ScriptWorks find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 5 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