Iowa · Nonprofit
CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC
CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,491 to it, the largest being BLACK HAWK COUNTY GAMING ASSOCIATION ($184,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $511k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $345k
- Net assets
- $689k
What Cedar Falls Community Theatre Inc does
Mission
To showcase community-based performing arts in cedar falls, iowa.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's main exempt purpose is the presentation of live theatrical performances in the community. The mission of the cedar falls community theatre is to be a showcase for the performing arts in the city, to enhance the cultural and economic development of the city, and to be a part of its historical preservation. Normally, four full-scale productions and other smaller performances take place each year. Cedar falls community theatre, inc. Promotes full utilization of the building space and services to generate revenue to cover the expenses of the building and the program. In a normal year, over 25,000 people will visit oster regent productions, traveling tours, receptions, classes, and other miscellaneous events.
$195,133 spent$243,587 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $195,133.
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 2017 to 2018, from $736k to $1.0M (+42%).
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 5% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 0% · 2021 71% · 2022 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $29k → $3k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $11k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cedar Falls Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE 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
CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 50% · 2023 99% — 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
40% of CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
100% of CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE 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.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
36% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC?
- CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,491 to it, the largest being BLACK HAWK COUNTY GAMING ASSOCIATION ($184,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $345,491 in grants to CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC?
- BLACK HAWK COUNTY GAMING ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $184,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 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