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Berkeley Playhouse Inc

Berkeley Playhouse Inc (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,167 to it, the largest being Imagination Foundation For the Arts Education & the Environment ($53,640). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.8M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$171k
Net assets
$2.1M
6/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Berkeley Playhouse Inc does

Mission

To produce music theater that engages, inspires and entertains audiences of all ages. We train and educate theatre artists and enthusiasts from children to late life learners. We believe in the essential power of music theatre to celebrate, inform and interpret our common humanity.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The 2024/25 mainstage season brought audiences five fantastic shows: The Prom, Seussical The Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Sound of Music, closing with the YouthStage Spotlight show, Something Rotten; serving over 22,000 patrons. We also ran a full year of educational programming serving over 1500 kids. Berkeley Playhouse continued to ensure that diverse audiences were represented in our programming organization wide, through education scholarships and community outreach. We provided 65 full or partial financial aid & scholarship packages to families, and we upheld our commitment to making live theater accessible to patrons who would be otherwise unable or unlikely to attend, providing a total of 1,472 value tickets during the 2024/25 season.

    $2,184,606 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,184,606.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($554k)2018 Revenue 115 ($2.5M) Expenses 121 ($2.4M) Net assets 111 ($614k)2019 Revenue 113 ($2.4M) Expenses 128 ($2.6M) Net assets 86 ($479k)2020 Revenue 84 ($1.8M) Expenses 99 ($2.0M) Net assets 55 ($304k)2021 Revenue 63 ($1.4M) Expenses 60 ($1.2M) Net assets 84 ($466k)2022 Revenue 148 ($3.2M) Expenses 107 ($2.2M) Net assets 271 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 139 ($3.0M) Expenses 125 ($2.5M) Net assets 358 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 130 ($2.8M) Expenses 134 ($2.7M) Net assets 377 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (134)Net assets (377)Peer revenue range

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 $1.9M to $2.9M (+49%).

$2.2M
$2.4M
$2.1M
$1.9M
$2.9M
$3.4M
$3.1M
$3.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 18% · 2022 48% · 2023 13% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

4% of Berkeley Playhouse Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$142k
’17
$59k
’18
−$135k
’19
−$175k
’20
$161k
’21
$1.0M
’22
$481k
’23
$104k
’24
7.2
months of
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.

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Listed1313141313121211
Joined·+2+1+3+1+0+0+1
No longer listed·2041102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $11k → $29k.

7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Berkeley Playhouse Inc’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

Berkeley Playhouse Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 79% · 2019 92% · 2020 43% · 2021 54% · 2022 99% · 2023 22% — 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

30% of Berkeley Playhouse Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

Berkeley Playhouse Inc draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.

PA
NJ
CA
CO
DE
OK

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Berkeley Playhouse Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve7.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Berkeley Playhouse 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
82%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Berkeley Playhouse Inc?
Berkeley Playhouse Inc (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,167 to it, the largest being Imagination Foundation For the Arts Education & the Environment ($53,640). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Berkeley Playhouse Inc have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $171,167 in grants to Berkeley Playhouse Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Berkeley Playhouse Inc?
Imagination Foundation For the Arts Education & the Environment is the largest funder on record, with $53,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Berkeley Playhouse Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 18 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