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BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY
BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY (GU) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,700 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($67,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $202k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Breaking Wave Theatre Company does
Mission
Education and the Arts
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We hosted free skills-building improv workshops open to the community helping participants grow in confidence communication and collaboration. The series culminated in a public performance in December 2024.
$2,670 spent7% of program spendingUnspoken: Nashville - In partnership with API Mid TN we presented Unspoken: Nashville a live storytelling event that gave voice to Asian and Pacific Islander community members. The program encouraged open dialogue about personal values mental wellness and the importance of family and identity. This program serviced 50 audience members and 10 team members.
$3,000 spentof which $3,000 as grants8% of program spendingWe Will Not Go Silent - We launched We Will Not Go Silent an original theatre piece addressing the real-world impact of environmental challenges in the Pacific. Through storytelling movement and music the show highlighted personal responsibility and stewardship encouraging communities to come together to protect their shared future. The production is being developed for national touring.
$15,244 spentof which $13,274 as grants40% of program spendingHaunted House in support of Childrens Ark - As part of the annual Zombie Run BWTC designed and operated a haunted house experience to raise funds for Childrens Ark a local nonprofit supporting youth and families. This event offered wholesome seasonal fun while directly supporting community needs.
$2,295 spent6% of program spendingCAATA Hawai Tour - In summer 2024 BWTC represented our region as part of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists CAATA Festival in Hawai We toured original works that celebrate Pacific Islander perspectives shared Guams cultural stories with national audiences and engaged in dialogue with artists and communities across the country.
$14,443 spentof which $13,500 as grants38% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,652.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $20k to $22k (+6%).
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.
100% of BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $53k.
From the IRS filings of BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY’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
BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% 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
90% 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 BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 68% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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
BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside GU, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY
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 GU
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
87%
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 BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY: 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 BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY?
- BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY (GU) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,700 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($67,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $201,700 in grants to BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY?
- NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $67,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in GU. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 6 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