Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BEARDED LADIES CABARET
BEARDED LADIES CABARET (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,114,276 to it, the largest being CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA ($772,327). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Bearded Ladies Cabaret does
Mission
An experimental cabaret group devoted to exploiting all possibilities of intimate, homemade theatre through beautiful songs, tricked-out costume changes, drag, and virtuostic prop construction.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mabeline - performance residency at voyeur nightclub and concert film available for download. Pop diva mabeline is back and greener than ever, kicking off her world tour in philly. The grinch's ex-wife is bringing the heat to the coldest time of the year with her holiday show featuring dazzling visuals, dynamic dancers, and surprise guest appearances.
$176,311 spent$23,145 earned by the program29% of program spendingBeards on ice - partnership with philadelphia parks and recreation at two city ice rinks. The bearded ladies are taking on the climate crisis, on wobbly skate at a time. This hour-long icecapade comes in two dazzling variations: fun for the whole family and pg13 (a little more edge). Featuring resources from philly's climate justice organizations and a free skate after the show.
$141,862 spent$14,097 earned by the program23% of program spendingRose - residency and touring production. In this musical shrine to the consumed twin, rose welcomes you into a feast of gender through song, storytelling, and a full plate of wordplay.
$100,922 spent$38,940 earned by the program17% of program spendingShavings - the Bearded Ladies Cabaret is presenting shavings, an installation and performance series. The installation space will be activated by live events featuring bearded ladies collaborators and prominent members of the philadelphia arts scene, including performances, talks,and more. The project is currently in a development stage, with several workshops for all collaborators. Shavings will open to the public from september to december 2026. Revenue = -0-; expenses = 63,832. Beardmobile - the beardmobile is a mobile performance unit, glitterfully outfitted for socially-distanced performances and political actions. Each performance is curated by a slew of amazing philly-based artists and organizations and hosted by a rotating roster of beards' hosts. Revenue = -0-; expenses = 55,131. Sing-a-longs - join the bearded ladies for a series of sing-along shows. Set your escapism and denial to music with rousing group renditions of songs that have nothing to do with fascism. Sing-along or scream on pitch or just scream revenue = 3,362; expenses = 19,405. Miscellaneous gigs - revenue = 11,094; expenses = 50,335.
$188,703 spent$14,456 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $607,798.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $767k to $1.6M (+111%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 15% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of BEARDED LADIES CABARET’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $25k → $464k.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 BEARDED LADIES CABARET’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
BEARDED LADIES CABARET has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% 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 BEARDED LADIES CABARET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 97% · 2020 49% · 2021 82% · 2022 69% · 2023 32% — 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
40% of BEARDED LADIES CABARET's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
57% of BEARDED LADIES CABARET's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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
BEARDED LADIES CABARET runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BEARDED LADIES CABARET receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 BEARDED LADIES CABARET
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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
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 BEARDED LADIES CABARET: 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 BEARDED LADIES CABARET?
- BEARDED LADIES CABARET (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,114,276 to it, the largest being CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA ($772,327). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEARDED LADIES CABARET have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,114,276 in grants to BEARDED LADIES CABARET, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEARDED LADIES CABARET?
- CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA is the largest funder on record, with $772,327 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEARDED LADIES CABARET 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 21 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