Tennessee · Nonprofit
COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC
COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,000 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $189k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $182k
What Colonnades Theatre Lab Inc does
Mission
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As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our award-winning productions have spanned more than 47 cities and 12 countries on four continents, reaching over 100,000 audience members, and facilitating reconciliation workshops for more than 15,000 participants. Most recently, we supported a group of 19 young cambodian circus performers to create a stage production, see you yesterday, as a way to move backwards in time across generations separated by genocide. Using their production as an inquiry into the past, they uncovered dimensions of themselves in relation to the trauma of their elders and ancestors. They then took their learnings on the road, performing across cambodia, the us, and then in africa, including a groundbreaking performance to 18,000 people in a congolese refugee camp in rwanda. The process of creating and touring this production was documented in a feature length film the journey back to now. Since then, global arts corps has been focused on its children's radio exchange, a multiyear initiative aimed at supporting kids around the world to collectively craft their own stories without adult intervention. Together with partners, we are working closely with groups of kids, mostly in the pre-teen age range but…
$266,337 spentof which $25,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $266,337.
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 $329k to $767k (+133%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 COLONNADES THEATRE LAB 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
COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
98% 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 COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC is better cushioned than half 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 COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
17%
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 COLONNADES THEATRE LAB 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 COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC?
- COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,000 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $56,000 in grants to COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 3 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