Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER
AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,655 to it, the largest being Chester County Community Foundation ($41,237). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $139k
What Avon Grove Community Theater does
Mission
Creating a performing arts tradition in southern Chester county by the following Provide challenging workshops and drama courses to interested students and adults as an enrichment and extension of the community theater program Create quality educational and cultural experiences for anyone wishing to participate in any area of the theaterperforming arts Give young people an appreciation of the performing arts imparting to them the necessary skills for producing directing and participating in community theater and other related projects Continue to seek opportunity for future growth within our community and to partner effectively with other dramatic organizations Build a true sense of community strength and spirit by utilizing the existing talents of local thespians and providing a creative outlet for aspiring performers
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
ACT Players performed a summer musical The Little Mermaid to support the performing arts tradition in Southern Chester County and to support our evolution into a vital resourceful community service Over 1100 community members came out to see the show with over 20 crew members and 39 cast members incuding youth
$22,460 spent53% of program spendingACT Players provided youth programs including two summer drama camps fall drama club and winter drama club for children ages 6-18 to build a love for the performing arts and to teach the children about all parts of a theater production to support our charter as a community service organization Over 60 kids attended theese programs which had performances for the community to attend
$15,177 spent36% of program spendingACT Players performed Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream to support the performing arts tradition in Southern Chester County and to support our evolution into a vital resourceful community service Over 480 community members came out to see the show with over 5 crew members and 14 cast members
$4,905 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,542.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $109k to $139k (+28%).
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.
17% of AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $29.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER’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
AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
91% 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 AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
91% of AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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
AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER
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 Pennsylvania
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 AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER?
- AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,655 to it, the largest being Chester County Community Foundation ($41,237). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $45,655 in grants to AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER?
- Chester County Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $41,237 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AVON GROVE COMMUNITY THEATER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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