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DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS INC

DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$190k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$888
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Dare to Defy Productions Inc does

Mission

Provide paid artistic opportunities to local artists, affordable professional arts entertainment to local audiences and accesible and affordable arts education to local youth and adults.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Theatrical productions provided paid artistic opportunities to 67 local artists. Provided affordable professional art entertainment to more than 1,600 local audience members and provided arts education to 18 youths and 15 adults

    $73,400 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $73,400.

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 ($156k) Expenses 100 ($154k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2018 Revenue 114 ($177k) Expenses 117 ($179k) Net assets 16 ($363)2019 Revenue 142 ($221k) Expenses 144 ($221k) Net assets 2 ($50)2020 Revenue 33 ($52k) Expenses 32 ($50k) Net assets 80 ($2k)2021 Revenue 114 ($177k) Expenses 90 ($139k) Net assets 1765 ($41k)2023 Revenue 236 ($367k) Expenses 301 ($462k) Net assets 122 ($3k)2024 Revenue 68 ($106k) Expenses 70 ($108k) Net assets 57 ($1k)2025 Revenue 122 ($190k) Expenses 124 ($190k) Net assets 39 ($888)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (124)Net assets (39)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 $2k to $41k (+2119%).

$2k
$363
$50
$2k
$41k
$3k
$1k
$888
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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
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2019 1% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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.

$2k
’17
−$2k
’18
−$313
’19
$2k
’20
$39k
’21
−$95k
’23
−$1k
’24
−$431
’25
0.1
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.

Board chair

David Moyer

Board President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

201720192023
Listed764
Joined···
No longer listed···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.

Funder
'21
'23
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS 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.

Where its funders are

DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.

TX

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

’21
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS INC's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS 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 Ohio

Inspiring Arts Inc75%Oregon Community Theatre74%Perrysburg Musical Theatre Company74%Amil Tellers of Dramatics Inc73%Evolution Theatre Inc73%Rise Up Youth Theatre73%Revolution Dance72%None Too Fragile Inc72%

Nationally

Dare to Dream Theatre Inc80%Theatre of Dare78%21ten Theatre Inc77%Locally Grown Theatre77%The Performing Arts Collective Inc77%Actors Point Theater Company Inc77%Village Theater Guild Ltd76%Aspire Community Theatre Inc76%
05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS 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 DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS INC?
DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS INC?
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DARE TO DEFY PRODUCTIONS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 1 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