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DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO

DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,159 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF RALEIGH AND WAKE COUNTY INC ($226,929). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$785k
Revenue FY2025
9
Funders on record
$533k
Grants received
$833k
Net assets
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%

Against its field

DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($559k) Expenses 100 ($500k) Net assets 100 ($851k)2018 Revenue 113 ($632k) Expenses 111 ($556k) Net assets 109 ($927k)2019 Revenue 103 ($578k) Expenses 112 ($561k) Net assets 111 ($945k)2020 Revenue 63 ($353k) Expenses 90 ($452k) Net assets 99 ($846k)2021 Revenue 69 ($386k) Expenses 84 ($421k) Net assets 95 ($811k)2022 Revenue 131 ($731k) Expenses 127 ($634k) Net assets 107 ($907k)2023 Revenue 139 ($776k) Expenses 144 ($719k) Net assets 113 ($963k)2024 Revenue 125 ($701k) Expenses 151 ($756k) Net assets 107 ($908k)2025 Revenue 140 ($785k) Expenses 172 ($860k) Net assets 98 ($833k)
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Revenue (140)Expenses (172)Net assets (98)Peer revenue range

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
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 25% · 2019 32% · 2020 38% · 2021 47% · 2022 47% · 2023 21% · 2024 19% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

37% of DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$59k
17
$77k
18
$18k
19
$99k
20
$35k
21
$97k
22
$56k
23
$56k
24
$75k
25
2.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $31k → $100k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% 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 DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO’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

DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

72% 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 DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO.

43%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 38% · 2019 46% · 2020 46% · 2021 55% · 2022 40% · 2023 40%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

50% of DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

62% of DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NY
DE
NC

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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 9 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.

Organizations like DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO

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 North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 16%Fundraising 1%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

88%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO?
DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,159 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF RALEIGH AND WAKE COUNTY INC ($226,929). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $533,159 in grants to DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO?
UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF RALEIGH AND WAKE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $226,929 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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