Texas · Nonprofit
CARA MIA THEATRE CO
CARA MIA THEATRE CO (Texas) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,455,572 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($785,439). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $300k
What Cara Mia Theatre Co does
Mission
Founded in 1996, Cara Mía Theatre Co.'s mission is to inspire and engage people to uplift their communities through transformative Latinx theatre, multicultural youth arts experiences, and community action. In addition to a season of 1-2 plays and an annual theatre festival, Cara Mía Theatre Co. tours original plays by Dallas artists, curates community programming for all communities and neighborhoods in Dallas, and provides inspiring programs for youth and schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Main stage events performed.
$645,367 spent$73,542 earned by the program75% of program spendingEducational Programs included the touring shows of Payasos. Clown!, Flores Y Calaveras, Searching for the Six Flags of Texas, Sor Juana Ines, The Wisdom of Viejo Antonio, Ursula, and A Farm for Meme. Educational workshops and residencies include Big Puppets, Theatre, Mexican Arts and Crafts, Mask Making, Acting with Masks, and Write On!
$180,363 spent$180,344 earned by the program21% of program spendingCommunity Services which include Camps, the School of YES!, Spring Break Camp and Summer Camp.
$33,638 spent4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $859,368.
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 2023 to 2024, from $568k to $317k (−44%).
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: 2017 21% · 2018 19% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 14% · 2023 16% · 2024 17% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of CARA MIA THEATRE CO’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. 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 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $82k → $664k.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $30k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CARA MIA THEATRE CO raised.
From the IRS filings of CARA MIA THEATRE CO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
CARA MIA THEATRE CO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
55% 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 CARA MIA THEATRE CO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 33% · 2019 48% · 2020 35% · 2021 25% · 2022 32% · 2023 47% — 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
56% of CARA MIA THEATRE CO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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 CARA MIA THEATRE CO's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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
CARA MIA THEATRE CO's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CARA MIA THEATRE CO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $215k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$215k
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 CARA MIA THEATRE CO
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARA MIA THEATRE CO: 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 CARA MIA THEATRE CO?
- CARA MIA THEATRE CO (Texas) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,455,572 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($785,439). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARA MIA THEATRE CO have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,455,572 in grants to CARA MIA THEATRE CO, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARA MIA THEATRE CO?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $785,439 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARA MIA THEATRE CO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 31 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