California · Nonprofit
CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION
CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,482 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $508k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $316k
What Celebration Productions Corporation does
Mission
Presenting theatrical performances celebrating the LGBTQ+ community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In July-September 2024 Celebration Theatre engaged 3 playwrights of lived trans experience in a Writers Room supported by our project director volunteer writing consultant and three dramaturgical consultants to commission three new one-acts for TALES OF THE TRANSCESTORS: THE DIVINE the third installment of the theatres new works initiative uncovering and affirming gender-expansive histories across time and cultures. In December 2024 the theatre presented 4 World Premiere performances of TALES OF THE TRANSCESTORS: THE DIVINE co-produced with Greenway Arts Alliance at the Greenway Court Theatre. Written by Azad Namazie Blaire Battle and Kaila Tacazon directed by Nico Pang and produced by Petey Gibson the piece reimagined folklore mythologies and spiritual guides across time and cultures. Through three interwoven stories rooted in Native Hawaiian tradition Kapaemahu Islamic mysticism djinn and spiritual alchemy the Rebis the production unearthed personal and cultural histories to reclaim trans wisdom healing power and joy. Additional community offerings included a moderated talkback with cast and creative time plus an ASL-interpreted performance. The sold-out run enjoyed 367…
$55,313 spent34% of program spendingIn October 2024 Celebration Theatre returned to participate in One Institutes Circa: Queer Histories Festival with a reading of Boni Alvarez play STICKY RICE at festival venue partner Los Angeles LGBT Centers Renberg Theatre. Directed by former artistic director Michael Matthews and featuring television and stage actor Reggie Lee among others. The play centers on a group of San Francisco "gaysian" friends who confront their self-hatred and prejudices to unearth gay Asian beauty outside the White gaze the journey to self-love love for community and the love of your chosen family. The one-night-only event saw 67 attendees employed 12 theatre artists and included an audience talkback with moderator playwright director and cast.
$6,508 spent4% of program spendingIn November 2024 the theatres Celebrating New Works program presented a West Coast Premiere workshop reading presentation of FAUCI & KRAMER by Drew Fornarola a co-production with Los Angeles LGBT Center at its DavidsonValentini Theatre. Brought to life by film tv and stage veterans Sal Viscuso and Jack Plotnick with direction by Khanisha Foster the play dramatizes an imagined meeting between Americas Doctor" Anthony Fauci and playwright activist Larry Kramer who had an unlikely and complicated friendship. In the 90s both were fighting the AIDS crisis from opposite ends of the political spectrum. In this heartfelt serio-comic play after Kramers death during the Covid pandemic his spirit visits Fauci one last time. In the privacy of Faucis home office the duo discuss art power progress and where we go from here. The one-night-only sold-out event enjoyed attendance of 64 patrons and engaged 5 artists. Celebrating New Works CNW is the theatres long-running new play reading series designed to shine a light on new and emerging voices within the LGBTQ+ community and the stories about for them.
$8,134 spent5% of program spendingIn May 2025 Celebration Theatre produced a West Coast Premiere Reading Presentation of Rajendra Ramoon Maharajs SWEET LORRAINE directed by five-time Tony Award-nominated director choreographer Camille A. Brown. Inspired by the enduring friendship of Black queer literary icons Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin the play offers an intimate imagining of the final conversation between best friends in Lorraines New York City hospital room in January 1965. Set one week prior to Lorraines passing from pancreatic cancer the story explores the complex dynamic and often heated relationship between these two prolific creative giants and American artist-activists. Following a developmental workshop at Los Angeles LGBT Center audiences were invited to experience this new work as part of the City of West Hollywoods free 2025 WeHo Pride Arts Festival at the Renberg Theatre brought to life for a one-night-only staged reading with the luminous talents of LA Drama Critics Circle Award winner Ashley Romans* as Lorraine Hansberry Tony nominee Ato Blankson-Wood as James Baldwin two-time Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee Charlayne Woodard stage and screen star Steven Weber and more. The…
$66,701 spent41% of program spendingIn June 2025 Celebration presented the West Coast Premiere of ascendant stage and screen artist Vico Ortiz solo show RISE OF A KING at Greenway Court Theatre. A cosmic gender-bending joyride this burlesque extravaganza blended drag astrology and raw storytelling to untangle the mess and magic of growing upwhile rewriting the rules of who gets to wear the crown. Directed by Ismanuel Rodrguez written by Vico Ortiz and developed with Nikki Levy the piece was produced in association with BoriQueer Productions and Puerto Rico-based Tantai Teatro and presented at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival during Pride Month. The sold-out run garnered 267 attendees and engaged 6 creative workers and artists over 3 performances including an ASL-interpretated performance and post-show talkback with creator Ortiz and producer Nikki Levy.
$26,029 spent16% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $162,685.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $336k to $74k (−78%).
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: 2022 43% · 2023 13% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Parnell Damone Marcano
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $33k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION’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
CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
75% 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 CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 50% · 2020 98% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 92% — 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
75% of CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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
CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION: 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 CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION?
- CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,482 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $60,482 in grants to CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CELEBRATION PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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