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CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC

CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,066 to it, the largest being KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($126,822). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$679k
Revenue FY2024
15
Funders on record
$337k
Grants received
$65k
Net assets
11/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($379k) Expenses 100 ($359k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2018 Revenue 101 ($382k) Expenses 111 ($398k) Net assets 68 ($34k)2019 Revenue 116 ($442k) Expenses 123 ($442k) Net assets 68 ($34k)2020 Revenue 99 ($376k) Expenses 66 ($236k) Net assets 347 ($175k)2021 Revenue 179 ($678k) Expenses 163 ($587k) Net assets 528 ($266k)2022 Revenue 143 ($543k) Expenses 174 ($625k) Net assets 361 ($182k)2023 Revenue 158 ($599k) Expenses 196 ($706k) Net assets 154 ($77k)2024 Revenue 179 ($679k) Expenses 193 ($692k) Net assets 129 ($65k)
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Revenue (179)Expenses (193)Net assets (129)

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: 2019 5% · 2020 9% · 2021 5% · 2022 11% · 2023 8% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

$20k
17
$16k
18
$349
19
$141k
20
$91k
21
$82k
22
$107k
23
$13k
24
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $46k.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)42% 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 CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY 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

CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

67% 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 CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC.

38%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 33% · 2021 30% · 2022 32% · 2023 36%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

56% of CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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

96% of CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

WI
NV
CA
NE

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

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Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $110k on record.

Federal$110k
grants $110kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$110k

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 CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Nebraska

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY 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 CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC?
CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,066 to it, the largest being KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($126,822). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $337,066 in grants to CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC?
KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $126,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 15funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing