Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COMPANY ONE INC
COMPANY ONE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,410,203 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($714,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Company One Inc does
Mission
Company one theatre builds community at the intersection of art and social change. Vision: a boston defined by justice, equity, and artistic innovation. Manifesto: welcome to our community, where every audience member, artist, student, and supporter has the opportunity to fight for social justice. At company one: we strive to create intentional, authentic theatrical experiences that uniquely integrate content, style, space, and community. We amplify new stories and adventurous theatrical forms to define what's next in the american theatre.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Artistic programs: stage productions - c1's award winning productions reach over 7,000 patrons annually and serve boston's most diverse audiences. Entertaining and socially relevant plays take place in collaboration with partners across the boston area. Ticket prices are entirely pay-what- you-want for performances. C1 playlab circuit is a two-pronged approach to new play development. The first prong is called open write, which is a series of free artistic and professional development opportunities open to a broad community of writers. The second prong is our play development labs broken into three different programs: flux lab, surge lab, and volt lab. Many of these programs are offered for free and through a partnership with the boston public library.
$1,243,898 spentof which $230,175 as grants$182,033 earned by the program73% of program spendingEducation programs: stage one: in-school - a partnership with boston public schools, providing school day instruction serving 6 high schools, 2 middle schools, and 1 elementary school, reaching over 400 students. The program is flexible and comprehensive, and the curriculum integrates personal skill development group dynamics, communication, writing, and performance while focusing on student-written work. In addition, we also offered short-term residencies using theater to address anti-racism. Professional development for actors- low-cost classes designed for working actors and those new to the profession. These classes, run by professional acting coaches and directors, help actors continue to develop their performance skills while preparing them for auditions. Class graduates have gone on to work in nearly every theatre in boston. Professional development for educators - this program focuses on developing the teachers' role in creating activism centered lesson plans. Teaching artists work in tandem to help educators use theatre integration strategies to cultivate community in their classrooms. Through collaborative workshops primary teachers learn how to pair current events with…
$415,200 spent$153,620 earned by the program24% of program spendingConnectivity & engagement programs: making deep connections and expanding our network and impact by building long-term relationships with invested community partners. Social action - with organizational partners to provide tangible opportunities to affect change in our communities. Examples of this have been registering our community members to vote at our events, providing opportunities for our audiences to learn about social justice issues and sign petitions of support, and facilitated group conversations on issues of race and class. Better future - community activation series designed in the wake of covid that brings together and activates boston's artists, community leaders, policymakers and residents in order to understand the needs of our neighborhoods and reimagine a better future for our city. The series showcases local artists creating socially relevant work and connects residents with local resources and opportunities to support policy advocacy related to food justice, reproductive justice, climate justice, education justice, and more; as well as creative placemaking and community building for our lgbtq+ and bipoc communities. Pre- and post-show events - dialogues and…
$46,366 spent$13,218 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,705,464.
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 $620k to $1.1M (+85%).
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 2% · 2018 9% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 8% · 2022 16% · 2023 43% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of COMPANY ONE INC’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. 2 of the last 8 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 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $123k → $852k.
7 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 COMPANY ONE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
COMPANY ONE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
37% 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 COMPANY ONE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 32% · 2019 42% · 2020 29% · 2021 42% · 2022 14% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of COMPANY ONE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
50% of COMPANY ONE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $562k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COMPANY ONE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding COMPANY ONE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $282k on record — $70k federal, $212k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$70k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$210k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$2k
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.
Organizations like COMPANY ONE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 COMPANY ONE 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 COMPANY ONE INC?
- COMPANY ONE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,410,203 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($714,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPANY ONE INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,410,203 in grants to COMPANY ONE INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPANY ONE INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $714,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPANY ONE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing