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Capital Stage Company

Capital Stage Company (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $416,342 to it, the largest being THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$416k
Net assets
$158k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Capital Stage Company does

Mission

Advancement of performing arts through live performance.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Capital Stage produced 6 mainstage productions and 1 holiday production for a total of 201 performances. The production of THE HEARTSELLERS was a triple co production with Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, CA and Theatre Works in Palo Alto. Capital Stage also provides educational classes for the community at large and a 12 month apprenticeship program for newly graduated yound adults.

    $1,390,365 spent$967,195 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,390,365.

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 ($993k) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($81k)2018 Revenue 108 ($1.1M) Expenses 106 ($1.1M) Net assets 64 ($52k)2019 Revenue 118 ($1.2M) Expenses 113 ($1.2M) Net assets 62 ($51k)2020 Revenue 114 ($1.1M) Expenses 86 ($897k) Net assets 348 ($283k)2021 Revenue 76 ($759k) Expenses 49 ($514k) Net assets 649 ($528k)2022 Revenue 145 ($1.4M) Expenses 127 ($1.3M) Net assets 844 ($687k)2023 Revenue 153 ($1.5M) Expenses 175 ($1.8M) Net assets 524 ($427k)2024 Revenue 171 ($1.7M) Expenses 194 ($2.0M) Net assets 194 ($158k)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (194)Net assets (194)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 $544k to $866k (+59%).

$427k
$410k
$459k
$544k
$866k
$1.2M
$1.1M
$789k
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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

42% of Capital Stage Company’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$50k
’17
−$29k
’18
−$2k
’19
$233k
’20
$245k
’21
$114k
’22
−$305k
’23
−$322k
’24
3.5
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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Listed2017161315151318
Joined·+4+2+0+7+1+2+7
No longer listed·7335142
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $33k → $42k.

6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 Capital Stage 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

Capital Stage Company leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

69% 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 Capital Stage Company.

30%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 42% · 2019 43% · 2020 50% · 2021 63% · 2022 45% · 2023 72% — 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.

How long its funders stay

33% of Capital Stage Company's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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

65% of Capital Stage Company'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. Of the $144k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

IL
NY
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $272k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Capital Stage Company has grown faster than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

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

Organizations like Capital Stage 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 29%Fundraising 5%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 Capital Stage Company?
Capital Stage Company (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $416,342 to it, the largest being THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Capital Stage Company have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $416,342 in grants to Capital Stage Company, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Capital Stage Company?
THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Capital Stage Company 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 9 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