California · Nonprofit
Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra
Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $613 to it, the largest being The A & D Tom Foundation ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $613
- Net assets
- $42k
What Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra does
Mission
The Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra (CATS) has been organized to produce and promote quality theatrical presentations and other works of art and literature that deal with Asian and Asian-related themes for the purpose of educating the general public regarding the aforementioned works. The presentations are done through high quality multicultural theater, events, and workshops. The mission of CATS is artistic and educational and seeks to expand the study of multiculturalism in the schools and to be a resource on Asian culture and history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
CATS presents annual Asian themed theatrical productions. For fiscal year 2024-2025, the production was "Where The Mountain Meets The Moon" based on the book by Grace Lin, adapted by Jeannine Coulombe and directed by Allison Chan. This production ran from April 17 to May 10, 2025 at the Nevada Theater in Nevada City, California.
$77,718 spent94% of program spendingCATS offers cultural enrichment programs, open to the members of the Grass Valley and Nevada City, California community, on various Asian themed topics. In the past years, CATS offered virtual cultural enrichment including cooking classes, watercolor and origami classes. During 2024-2025 various cultural enrichment events included the 1) Mahjong classes held at the Sierra Gold Community Senior Center; 2) co-organized and presented the Nevada City Chinese Lunar New Year Parade and Festival on February 23, 2025 - honoring the early Chinese Gold Rush pioneers and railroad workers of the Sierra.
$3,023 spent4% of program spendingCATS offers an annual scholarship to a local high school graduate who will be pursuing an education in the theater arts. This year's recipients of the Virgil Wong Memorial Scholarship were Olivia Herr and Bailey Bennett.
$2,300 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $83,041.
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 2022 to 2023, from $134k to $89k (−34%).
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.
46% of Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $28.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra’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
Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
100% of Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113 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.
Against its field
Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra has grown faster than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra: 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 Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra?
- Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $613 to it, the largest being The A & D Tom Foundation ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $613 in grants to Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra?
- The A & D Tom Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Asian Theatre Of The Sierra 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 2 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