North Dakota · Nonprofit
DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED
DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED (North Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,417 to it, the largest being THE TOM AND FRANCES LEACH FOUNDATION ($49,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $235k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $-26202
What Dakota Stage Limited does
Mission
The mission of dakota state limited is to provide quality community theater through the talents of artists in the bismarck-mandan nd area, for the enjoyment of area audiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Main stage - dakota state presents five live community theater productions each year, totaling 37 performances, reaching an audience of over 5000. The program provides approximately 16 position for directors, designers and technicians and is supported by over 130 community volunteers.
$141,657 spent$170,780 earned by the program65% of program spendingShade tree players summer childrens theatre program - step is an all- inclusive youth organization that provides a quality performance experience to any student with a desire to participate and learn the craft of theater as an art form. The program serves more than 100 annual participants and provices 20 positions for directors, designers and technicians.
$75,561 spent$63,950 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $217,218.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $24k to $107k (+341%).
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.
42% of DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Morgan Nelson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $16k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% — 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 DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED's grant income comes from North Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139 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
DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED: 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 DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED?
- DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED (North Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,417 to it, the largest being THE TOM AND FRANCES LEACH FOUNDATION ($49,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $49,417 in grants to DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED?
- THE TOM AND FRANCES LEACH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $49,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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