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DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC

DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,646,781 to it, the largest being THE DEPOT FOUNDATION ($599,002). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.6M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$20M
13/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Duluth Playhouse Inc does

Mission

To operate a community theatre and provide community education and classes in theatre in the duluth area

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide community with theatre productions and theatre classes providing education and classes to the area community.

    $3,126,679 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,126,679.

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 ($5.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($6.2M)2018 Revenue 188 ($10M) Expenses 150 ($2.1M) Net assets 236 ($15M)2019 Revenue 55 ($3.0M) Expenses 197 ($2.8M) Net assets 240 ($15M)2020 Revenue 34 ($1.9M) Expenses 150 ($2.1M) Net assets 236 ($15M)2021 Revenue 30 ($1.7M) Expenses 104 ($1.5M) Net assets 241 ($15M)2022 Revenue 54 ($3.0M) Expenses 200 ($2.8M) Net assets 242 ($15M)2023 Revenue 64 ($3.6M) Expenses 204 ($2.9M) Net assets 254 ($16M)2024 Revenue 155 ($8.6M) Expenses 244 ($3.5M) Net assets 339 ($21M)2025 Revenue 47 ($2.6M) Expenses 250 ($3.5M) Net assets 325 ($20M)
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Revenue (47)Expenses (250)Net assets (325)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 2023 to 2024, from $19M to $27M (+40%).

$14M
$19M
$19M
$19M
$19M
$19M
$19M
$27M
$26M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 65% · 2018 74% · 2021 49% · 2022 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

16% of DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4.1M
’17
$8.3M
’18
$245k
’19
−$256k
’20
$216k
’21
$180k
’22
$689k
’23
$5.1M
’24
−$930k
’25
1.1
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.

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Listed131314151614151514
Joined·+0+4+2+2+2+1+3+0
No longer listed·03114031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $244k → $109k.

7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 DULUTH PLAYHOUSE 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

DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

36%
largest funder
64%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 49% · 2019 43% · 2020 65% · 2021 44% · 2022 30% · 2023 41% — 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

54% of DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

90% of DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
NY
SD
OH
FL

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

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $257k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC's revenue fell 53% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−36% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 2%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC?
DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,646,781 to it, the largest being THE DEPOT FOUNDATION ($599,002). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,646,781 in grants to DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC?
THE DEPOT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $599,002 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 22 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