Oklahoma · Nonprofit
CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE
CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being LIONEL AND BEA HARRIS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Payne County Inclocal
- Norman Arts Councilportfolio match
- Arts Alliance Tulsa Incportfolio match
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.
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.
57% of CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $13k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE’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
CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Payne County InclocalOK · funds 21 organizations near you
- Norman Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Alliance Tulsa Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allied Arts of Oklahoma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fox Theatre Inc F/K/A Atlanta Landmarks Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Brazos Valleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nac Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Greater Lansingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shreveport Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
25% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE?
- CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being LIONEL AND BEA HARRIS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,000 in grants to CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE?
- LIONEL AND BEA HARRIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIMARRON PLAYERS INC DBA CUSHING COMMUNITY THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing