Texas · Nonprofit
Echo Theatre
Echo Theatre (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,080 to it, the largest being TACA INC ($62,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $221k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Echo Theatre does
Mission
To forge parity within the canon of global theater by producing, promoting, and preserving the work of women+ playwrights.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Patron attendance growth continued, with an increase of 52% over the prior season.We produced three main stage plays to critical and audience acclaim.--FEEDING THE CAT, INCORRECTLY, SEVERAL TIMES OVER by Shyama Nithiananda, which was the world premiere winner of the Texas Shout Out.--BEYOND THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Ann Timons, which was a world premiere and Echo's first commissioned work.--RAISING HELL WITH MOLLY IVINS, which was a fully staged performance reading of selected works of Molly Ivins, compiled and performed by Marty Van Kleeck.Our free Echo Reads series featured readings of the plays DEAR ELIZABETH by Sarah Ruhl, OPEN by Crystal Skillman, and THE TAMING by Lauren Gunderson.
$77,686 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $77,686.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $9k to $33k (+254%).
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.
79% of Echo Theatre’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $53k.
3 of 10 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 Echo Theatre’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
Echo Theatre leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 Echo Theatre.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 90% · 2022 50% · 2023 48% — 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 Echo Theatre's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
68% of Echo Theatre's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k 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.
Against its field
Echo Theatre has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Echo Theatre
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
68%
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 Echo Theatre: 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 Echo Theatre?
- Echo Theatre (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,080 to it, the largest being TACA INC ($62,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Echo Theatre have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $221,080 in grants to Echo Theatre, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Echo Theatre?
- TACA INC is the largest funder on record, with $62,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Echo Theatre find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 10 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