Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC
BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,894,396 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($715,535). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 130
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Barrington Stage Company Inc does
Mission
Barrington stage company is a theatre company in the berkshires with a mission to produce top-notch compelling work; to develop new plays and musicals; and to find fresh, bold ways of bringing new audiences into the theatre, especially young people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Theatrical productions centered around a summer season with additional auxiliary programming. Productions are built in-house or in collaboration with other companies. The organization employs new, mid-career, and seasoned professional artists and artisans, providing opportunity for artistic growth for theatre professionals of all backgrounds. In addition to staging existing works, the organization fosters the work of new playwrights in the commission of new works and allocates space in the season for full-scale productions of new plays.
$5,236,589 spent$2,017,537 earned by the program88% of program spendingBarrington stage offers educational programs to awaken the minds, imaginations, and creative power of children, teenagers, and young adults by providing opportunities for them to experience the joy of live theatre as performers, writers, technicians, and audience members. The educational programs consist of the playwright mentoring project, musical theatre conservatory, kidsact! & teensact!,devised theatre ensemble and student matinee/school residency programs.
$727,869 spent$63,081 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,964,458.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $9.9M (−13%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 7% · 2021 21% · 2022 17% · 2023 11% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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
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.
Board chair
Mary Ann Quinson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $461k → $1.3M.
21 of 130 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 BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 130 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
BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
34% 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 BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 19% · 2019 13% · 2020 17% · 2021 11% · 2022 30% · 2023 11% — 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.
How long its funders stay
52% of BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC's funding base is broadening — from 37 funders to 62 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Barrington Stage Supporting Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC?
- BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,894,396 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($715,535). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 130 organizations giving $8,894,396 in grants to BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $715,535 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 130 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing