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CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY

CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY (Delaware) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,079 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($51,195). 4 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 FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$85k
Net assets
$1.6M
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Clear Space Theatre Company does

Mission

To inspire audiences, artists, and students through high-quality performances and educational experiences.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Clear Space Theatre Company is the most prolific producer of professional theater in the state of delaware, offering a 13 play mainstage season each year, plus additional youth programs, special events, and late night cabarets. In 2023, clear space offered a total of 159 performances to the public, reaching audiences from 61 of 62 zip codes in the state of delaware and audiences from 36 states.

    $1,146,261 spent$919,182 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,146,261.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($974k) Expenses 100 ($901k) Net assets 100 ($96k)2019 Revenue 147 ($1.4M) Expenses 109 ($986k) Net assets 563 ($538k)2020 Revenue 95 ($926k) Expenses 88 ($794k) Net assets 701 ($670k)2021 Revenue 192 ($1.9M) Expenses 102 ($922k) Net assets 1691 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 72 ($700k) Expenses 118 ($1.1M) Net assets 1309 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 160 ($1.6M) Expenses 138 ($1.2M) Net assets 1690 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 155 ($1.5M) Expenses 167 ($1.5M) Net assets 1697 ($1.6M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (155)Expenses (167)Net assets (1697)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 2018 to 2019, from $193k to $2.8M (+1340%).

$193k
$2.8M
$3.1M
$3.7M
$1.4M
$2.2M
$2.3M
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

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2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 7% · 2019 5% · 2020 21% · 2021 58% · 2022 54% · 2023 1% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

27% of CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$73k
’18
$442k
’19
$132k
’20
$947k
’21
−$365k
’22
$309k
’23
$7k
’24
14
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.

Board chair

Megan Nehrbas

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed11131213111416
Joined·+3+4+5+5+3+7
No longer listed·154705
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

3 of 6 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 CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY’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

CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY.

60%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 71% · 2019 71% · 2020 77% · 2021 94% · 2022 52% · 2023 48% — 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

75% of CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY'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 $21k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Delaware funders.

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

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’22
’23
Delaware out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve14.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record — $20k federal, $1.1M state.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k
State$1.1M
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Top programs
  • GRANTS IN AID$556k
  • GRANTS$482k
  • OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$23k
  • STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$575
  • ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$500
  • INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES$240

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 18%Fundraising 5%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY?
CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY (Delaware) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,079 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($51,195). 4 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 CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $85,079 in grants to CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $51,195 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 6 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