Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,639,330 to it, the largest being JP's Peace Love & Happiness Foundation ($2,366,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Donald D Hammill Foundationshared funders
- The Roy Cockrum Foundationportfolio match
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 43% · 2022 20% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $378k → $630k.
19 of 75 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 THEATRE ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
43% 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 THEATRE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 26% · 2019 24% · 2020 25% · 2021 14% · 2022 18% · 2023 43% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 75 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Donald D Hammill Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- The Roy Cockrum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eva & Marvin Womack Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Alliance for Musical Theatre Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shield-Ayres Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 90 organizations that share your funders
- St David's Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 129 organizations that share your funders · funds 241 organizations near you
- Ascension Setonshared funderslocalMO · backs 52 organizations that share your funders · funds 87 organizations near you
- The Burdine Johnson Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
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 AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Ata Interests LLC · disregarded
- Paramount Theatre for the Performing Arts Inc · exempt
- State Theatre Company · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE?
- AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,639,330 to it, the largest being JP's Peace Love & Happiness Foundation ($2,366,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $7,639,330 in grants to AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE?
- JP's Peace Love & Happiness Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,366,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 75funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing