Montana · Nonprofit
BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE
BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,115 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($89,839). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $167k
- Net assets
- $634k
What Broadwater Productions Inc Grandstreet Theatre does
Mission
To brighten helena, montana and elevate the human spirit through live theatre and theatre education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grandstreet produces 8 mainstage theatre productions annually in our historic 200-seat theatre. Productions range from plays like noises off to large musicals like mary poppins. Three productions feature students from the grandstreet theatre school, four feature community actors, and one or two feature a mixed company of community actors, professional artists from across the country, and theatre school students. The theatre welcomes about 20,000 patrons annually.
$746,527 spent$571,401 earned by the program61% of program spendingGrandstreet theatre school is a nationally recognized after-school theatrical education program for students in kindergarten through high school. Students learn about all aspects of theatre-making in a fun and rigorous environment. The program offers merit and need-based scholarships to students.
$372,563 spentof which $43,434 as grants$259,846 earned by the program31% of program spendingGrandstreet summer theatre school consists of all- and half-day camps teaching a range of theatrical skills for k-12 students. Classes include a two-week-long summer theatre camp, an intensive acting conservatory for students 13+, and "theatre for social skills" for neurodiverse students.
$99,624 spent$137,107 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,218,714.
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 2020 to 2021, from $862k to $1.3M (+52%).
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 37% · 2022 29% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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 4 funders, grant income rose $9k → $28k.
6 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE’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
BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 55% · 2022 45% · 2023 40% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $167k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE's revenue grew 45% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE
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 Montana
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE?
- BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,115 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($89,839). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $167,115 in grants to BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE?
- MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $89,839 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROADWATER PRODUCTIONS INC GRANDSTREET THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 2017–2025), 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