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Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc

Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $296,432 to it, the largest being Kern Dance Alliance ($255,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$337k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$296k
Net assets
$88k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 84%
01What it does

What Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc does

Mission

Education in the area of theater arts, singing, and live audience performances.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Produced theatrical shows and operated theatrical workshops for children. Approximately 310 children participated as performers during the year and audiences totaled over 6,613 people.

    $222,919 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $222,919.

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 ($280k) Expenses 100 ($262k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2018 Revenue 90 ($251k) Expenses 100 ($262k) Net assets -349 ($-8114)2019 Revenue 94 ($263k) Expenses 99 ($260k) Net assets -209 ($-4843)2020 Revenue 46 ($129k) Expenses 40 ($104k) Net assets 868 ($20k)2021 Revenue 94 ($261k) Expenses 77 ($202k) Net assets 3434 ($80k)2022 Revenue 102 ($284k) Expenses 117 ($306k) Net assets 2497 ($58k)2023 Revenue 111 ($311k) Expenses 109 ($287k) Net assets 3505 ($81k)2024 Revenue 121 ($337k) Expenses 126 ($330k) Net assets 3803 ($88k)
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Revenue (121)Expenses (126)Net assets (3803)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 $46k to $86k (+89%).

$22k
$30k
$26k
$46k
$86k
$62k
$87k
$100k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

24% of Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’17
−$10k
’18
$3k
’19
$25k
’20
$60k
’21
−$22k
’22
$23k
’23
$7k
’24
3.2
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.

2017201820192021202220232024
Listed3101010101010
Joined·+7+0·+1+0+0
No longer listed·00·100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $260k.

Funder
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total
$255k
funders
2
2
1
2
3
2
3
1
1

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Childrens Musical Theatreworks 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

Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc.

86%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 60% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 82% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — 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

100% of Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $432 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc: 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 Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc?
Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $296,432 to it, the largest being Kern Dance Alliance ($255,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $296,432 in grants to Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc?
Kern Dance Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $255,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc 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 5 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