Ohio · Nonprofit
AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE
AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $231,084 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ($167,336). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $159k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $231k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Available Light Theatre does
Mission
1) Encouraging the development of actors, singers, musicians, and theatrical production experts through live theatre productions and educational workshops; 2) Providing the facilities and talent for community interest in theatre; 3) Offering opportunities to view original and previously produced theatrical works to stimulate culture, learning and appreciation for the arts; and 4) Producing, performing and promoting works of theatre on a non-profit basis. Available light theatre's shows tackle many societal issues. The central Ohio public is given the opportunity to see original theatre at an affordable cost. Available light maintains a policy of "pay what you want" for tickets so that everyone, regardless of financial ability may attend live theatre.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Available light theatre presented four productions to the public including: Lunch Bunch, Wild Strawberries, and Rock Egg Spoon.
$96,875 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,875.
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 2024 to 2025, from $18k to $51k (+179%).
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 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE’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.
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 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $17k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE’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
AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 54% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE
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 Ohio
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE: 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 AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE?
- AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $231,084 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ($167,336). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $231,084 in grants to AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE?
- GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $167,336 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AVAILABLE LIGHT THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 4 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