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AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC
AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,015 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($84,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $416k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $305k
- Net assets
- $259k
What Austin Shakespeare Festival Co Inc does
Mission
Austin Shakespeare performs timeless stories that explore the human adventure and celebrate the power of words on stages and in schools in the heart of Texas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Indoor Productions: Austin Shakespeare presented 1 mainstage production at The Long Center Rollins Theatre. In February we produced an original script: Mahabharata Tales, based on the classic Sanskrit stories known all over South Asia. In November we produced a staged reading of My Children! My Africa!, Athol Fugard's heartbreaking story of the tragic consequences of racism in South African during the late stages of apartheid.
$107,339 spentof which $42,450 as grants$43,249 earned by the program33% of program spendingOutdoor Productions: For the 37th time the company presented Free Shakespeare in Zilker Park with a production of Julius Caesar. This was the first time the company performed the show in 25 years. Young Shakespeare presented its 18th season with Cymbeline, the seldom performed but extraordinary tragedy. Performed at The Curtain Theatre, Austin's replica of an Elizabethan theater, the production featured 13 teen performers in 7 public performances. This is a rare opportunity for students to rehearse and perform on the type of stage for which Shakespeare wrote his plays.
$186,893 spentof which $41,175 as grants$10,507 earned by the program58% of program spendingCabarets: continuing a tradition of presenting cabaret performances at Parker Jazz Club, the company produced Ella Fitzgerald Song Books, to great acclaim. This was followed by a cabaret of The Beatles songs, a huge hit with the audiences and are highest selling cabaret. These were the 11th and 12th cabarets since 2018.
$18,974 spentof which $13,725 as grants$15,840 earned by the program6% of program spendingEducation: in-class workshops, bused-in student performances, touring productions for students to area students & adult education programs
$10,609 spentof which $11,400 as grants$21,495 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $323,815.
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.
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 $94k to $219k (+133%).
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: 2019 23% · 2020 34% · 2021 30% · 2022 27% · 2023 32% · 2024 3% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $31k → $6k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO 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
AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
79% 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 SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 65% · 2019 41% · 2020 46% · 2021 95% · 2022 70% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
87% of AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC?
- AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,015 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($84,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $305,015 in grants to AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC?
- GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 12 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