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BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA
BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA (Virginia) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,865,944 to it, the largest being BELLA VISTA FOUNDATION ($850,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $10.0M
What Barter Foundation Inc State Theatre of Virginia does
Mission
Utilize a resident company of artists to produce and create live theatre for the public good; use the theatre as a vehicle for education for all ages; and to serve southwest virginia as a tourist attraction.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, barter theatre produced 13 in-person professional shows for adults and families and 5 shows for young audiences at barter theatre for a total of 532 performances, toured 2 shows for young audiences across 9 states, presented 7 free staged readings, and produced a young playwrights festival, college playwriting festival, and black stories black voices monologue festival for a total audience of 155,734.00
$6,509,116 spent$5,070,249 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,509,116.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $9.4M to $11M (+17%).
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 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 17% · 2021 43% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $308k → $975k.
10 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
32% 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 BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 24% · 2019 42% · 2020 15% · 2021 15% · 2022 13% · 2023 26% — 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
59% of BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
54% of BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $617k 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.
Organizations like BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA: 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 BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA?
- BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA (Virginia) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,865,944 to it, the largest being BELLA VISTA FOUNDATION ($850,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $4,865,944 in grants to BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA?
- BELLA VISTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 50 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