California · Nonprofit
CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES
CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 195 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,118,810 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,843,792). 134 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44M
- Funders on record
- 195
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $60M
What Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles does
Mission
We believe theatre creates an extraordinary connection between artists and audiences that only starts on the stage. Theatre creates the energy that feeds a city, a culture, and a society. Theatre reflects the community it serves. Our mission is to serve the diverse audiences of los angeles by producing and presenting theatre of the highest caliber, by nurturing new artists, by attracting new audiences, and by developing youth outreach and arts education programs. At our three theatres, the ahmanson theatre, the mark taper forum, and the kirk douglas theatre, we invite audiences to experience the broadest range of theatrical entertainment in the country. We produce and present the most celebrated shows straight from broadway, thought-provoking and lively stories that help us understand our complicated world, and adventurous new plays from fresh voices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ahmanson theatre: clue* (33 performances, 47,346 total attendance); duel reality (12 performances, 9,203 total attendance); once upon a mattress (32 performances, 54,710 total attendance); old friends (34 performances, 48,054 total attendance); life of pi (31 performancs, 38,724 total attendance); parade* (16 performances, 17,421 total attendance)*production crosses two fiscal years.
$17,985,790 spentof which $71,750 as grants$20,150,124 earned by the program44% of program spendingMark taper forum: american idiot (53 performances, 31,011 total attendance); fake it until you make it (46 performances, 20,310 total attendance); hamlet (34 performances, 17,271 total attendance); muse/ique (6 performances, 2,814 total attendance)
$8,621,885 spent$6,370,847 earned by the program21% of program spendingKirk douglas theatre: cat kid comic club (51 performances, 11,614 total attendance); el otro oz (12 performances, 2,231 total attendance)
$678,937 spent$1,341,736 earned by the program2% of program spendingCenter theatre group's education & community partnerships (e&cp) work supports ctg's overall mission: serving the diverse audiences of los angeles by producing and presenting theatre of the highest caliber, by nurturing new artists, by attracting new audiences, and by developing youth outreach and arts education programs. Our ctg core values of centering los angeles; lifelong learning, inspiration, and human connection; and respect, compassion, social conscience, and aredi lead our way.e&cp specifically serves our mission by working collaboratively and with direct and frequent input from our los angeles communities; partnering with local organizations, theatremakers, and schools; providing resources and opportunities for local educators and students; and creating programs to equip and collaborate with the next generation of theatremakers. The e&cp team keeps justice, inclusion, and antiracism practices at the center of our work. For fy25, education & community partnerships engaged 7,583 students, 925 educators, and 5,421 additional participants through live programming, student matinees, workshops, readings, internships, career fairs, in-school residencies, ticketing initiatives,…
$13,925,712 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,212,324.
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 $83M to $93M (+12%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 28% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% 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.
Chief executive
Meghan Pressman
CEO/managing director
Board chair
William Ahmanson
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 73 funders to 90 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $3.7M.
28 of 195 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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: $17M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Music Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 195 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
CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
38% 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 CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 12% · 2019 12% · 2020 42% · 2021 13% · 2022 19% · 2023 14% — broadly stable.
“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
61% of CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
72% of CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES's funding base is broadening — from 73 funders to 90 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
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 CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES?
- CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 195 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,118,810 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,843,792). 134 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES have?
- IRS filings report 195 organizations giving $36,118,810 in grants to CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES, 134 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,843,792 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 195 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing