Washington · Nonprofit
BALLYHOO THEATRE
BALLYHOO THEATRE (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,066 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($67,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $127k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Ballyhoo Theatre does
Mission
Ballyhoo Theatre's purpose is to enrich, educate and entertain our community by providing a superior theatre experience, to provide education in the theatre arts to children and young adults, and to create a safe and inclusive environment. Ballyhoo Theatre is a queer led organization that serves the LGBTQIA2S+ and Ally community. As part of our production season, we are committed to including diverse queer stories, stories with queer characters, as well as telling traditional stories through a queer lens. We are a space that celebrates and welcomes everyone; queer folks, their allies, and individuals who are searching for a community-based environment to grow and learn in.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
ArtsFund Grant (unspecified) - Funding for a free-to-the-public performance of the children's musical "Seussical TYA" which reached approximately 1,800 audience members, and included a performance for a Title 1 school. People served: over 1,800. We were able to use the remaining grant amount for operating expenses and rentals for other programs, including our educational programs.
$25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants36% of program spendingWe were able to scholarship many students for educational theatre projects this year using grant funding. This grant, from the Hazel Miller Foundation, funded 12 of those students, many from underserved communities including BIPOC students, neurodivergent students and students from the LGBTQIA2S+ communities.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants7% of program spendingPrivate donation - This donation was used to cover general operating expenses that allow us to produce quality children's educational theatre and mainstage performances.
$25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants36% of program spendingPrivate donations from several individuals, used for operating expenses.
$14,920 spentof which $14,920 as grants21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,920.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $8k to $21k (+174%).
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.
55% of BALLYHOO THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $21 → $19k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 BALLYHOO 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
BALLYHOO THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 BALLYHOO THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 94% — diversifying over time.
“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 BALLYHOO THEATRE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
BALLYHOO THEATRE runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 BALLYHOO 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 Washington
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALLYHOO 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 BALLYHOO THEATRE?
- BALLYHOO THEATRE (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,066 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($67,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLYHOO THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $93,066 in grants to BALLYHOO THEATRE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLYHOO THEATRE?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $67,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLYHOO THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2023–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing