Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION
COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,669,998 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($1,515,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Community Theater Project Corporation does
Mission
Kelly strayhorn theater is a home for creative experimentation, community dialogue, and collective action rooted in the liberation of black and queer people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kst presents - kst presents brings evening-length dance, theater, music, and multidisciplinary performance works, from local and global artists to our pittsburgh stages on an ongoing basis. Kst works with artists on grant opportunities including national dance/theater project, national performance network creation fund commissions and advancing black arts to realize these projects.
$1,023,706 spent$54,767 earned by the program69% of program spendingRentals - kelly strayhorn theater and kst's alloy studios are two professionally-equipped venues located in the heart of east liberty and along the penn avenue arts district, respectively. These spaces play host to a collection of exciting rehearsals, film shoots, and events throughout the year and can accommodate a wide range of events such as concerts, dance performances, theater productions, lectures, and meetings--all at competitive market-based rates with a full team of support staff. Kst's provision of these opportunities allows for underserved and underrepresented adjacent neighborhood populations to have access to these facilities and economically improves the kst neighborhood through art.
$366,005 spent$192,742 earned by the program25% of program spendingEducation programming at kelly strayhorn theater focuses on providing accessible, community-centered learning opportunities through collaborations with artists, educators, and partner organizations. Our facilities support a variety of classes, workshops, rehearsals, and skill-building activities across creative, cultural, and performance-based disciplines, offering flexible space for both ongoing instruction and short-term educational programs.
$43,256 spent$17,100 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther- kst is proud to launch special, time-limited projects addressing sociopolitical issues that fulfill our role as a responsive arts organization charged with being a leader in culture and social change, additionally, kst provides services in curation, project and production management for companies, schools and individuals seeking unique performance and arts experiences.
$41,576 spent$107,660 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,474,543.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $2.5M (+37%).
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% · 2018 7% · 2019 6% · 2020 7% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 7% · 2024 32% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Alyssa Lyon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $134k → $797k.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION’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 THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% 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 COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 84% · 2019 75% · 2020 46% · 2021 30% · 2022 55% · 2023 38% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
83% of COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M 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.
Against its field
COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION: 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 THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION?
- COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,669,998 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($1,515,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $5,669,998 in grants to COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION?
- THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $1,515,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 28 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