California · Nonprofit
EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE
EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,537 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($54,525). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $296k
What El Dorado Musical Theatre does
Mission
Edmt is a performing arts organization where youth receive top level instruction in voice, acting, and dance with the ultimate goal of building confidence for life through excellence in musical theater training and productions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
High voltage tour group: * high voltage is a group of 22 members who sing, dance, and entertain a wide range of audiences, in the community, as our performance ambassadors. * performances from august 1, 2024 through july 31, 2025 include: back to broadway at the harris center on october 18, 2024. / holiday celebration at the harris center on december 9, 2024. / high voltage in the round at edmt on march 7-8, 2025. / best of broadway at the harris center on june 14, 2025.
$779,091 spent100% of program spendingClasses/camps: * edmt held classes in acting, singing and dancing through its performing arts institute. Classes were held from august 14, 2024 through april 25, 2025 (25 weeks) in our facility. * five weeks of summer camps were held in our facility between june 16-august 1, 2025.
Shows: * seussical at the harris center on november 15-24, 2024. * disneys the little mermaid at the harris center on march 21-30, 2025. * annual training show rehearsals and performances from february 27-march 1, 2025, for performers aged 5-9 years old. This is a program with scripts and music written specifically for this younger level. * legally blonde at the harris center on may 9-17, 2025. * willy wonka at the harris center on july 5-13, 2025
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $779,091.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $97k to $687k (+606%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 61% · 2022 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Sarah Waymire
CEO
Board chair
Russ Obrien
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $19k → $21k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 EL DORADO MUSICAL 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
EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 51% · 2020 98% · 2021 60% · 2022 89% · 2023 51% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k 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
EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EL DORADO MUSICAL 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 EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE?
- EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,537 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($54,525). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $126,537 in grants to EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $54,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EL DORADO MUSICAL THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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