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CORN STOCK THEATRE

CORN STOCK THEATRE (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,483 to it, the largest being NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$469k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$115k
Net assets
$1.1M
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Corn Stock Theatre does

Mission

To study, promote, and present theatrical productions in Central Illinois.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Member events - 32 productions and 14,528 tickets sold

    $133,750 spent$314,063 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $133,750.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($515k) Expenses 100 ($445k) Net assets 100 ($992k)2018 Revenue 95 ($489k) Expenses 110 ($489k) Net assets 98 ($970k)2019 Revenue 89 ($458k) Expenses 107 ($476k) Net assets 105 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 38 ($197k) Expenses 49 ($217k) Net assets 102 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 113 ($583k) Expenses 84 ($373k) Net assets 128 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 89 ($458k) Expenses 128 ($571k) Net assets 111 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 85 ($440k) Expenses 124 ($553k) Net assets 102 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 91 ($469k) Expenses 98 ($437k) Net assets 113 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (91)Expenses (98)Net assets (113)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+24%).

$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.1M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 34% · 2021 48% · 2022 4% · 2023 12% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

28% of CORN STOCK THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$70k
’17
−$246
’18
−$18k
’19
−$20k
’20
$209k
’21
−$113k
’22
−$114k
’23
$32k
’24
3.9
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.

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Listed1213131312111212
Joined·+3+1+2+3+3+6+3
No longer listed·2124453
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $40k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 CORN STOCK THEATRE’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

CORN STOCK THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

90% 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 CORN STOCK THEATRE.

35%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 85% · 2020 87% · 2021 94% · 2022 90% · 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of CORN STOCK THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

55% of CORN STOCK THEATRE'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 $52k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states.

IL
CA
DC

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

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’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

CORN STOCK THEATRE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CORN STOCK THEATRE

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

31% of spending goes to programs.

Program 31%Management 69%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CORN STOCK THEATRE: 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 CORN STOCK THEATRE?
CORN STOCK THEATRE (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,483 to it, the largest being NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CORN STOCK THEATRE have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $115,483 in grants to CORN STOCK THEATRE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CORN STOCK THEATRE?
NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC 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 CORN STOCK THEATRE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 8 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