Florida · Nonprofit
EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY
EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $368,987 to it, the largest being THE ST JOE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($232,090). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $369k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Emerald Coast Theatre Company does
Mission
Ectc operates as a non-profit, 501(c)3 serving okaloosa, walton and bay counties in florida with a mission to enrich and entertain the emerald coast community through professional and educational theatre.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emerald Coast Theatre Company produced seven professional theatre productions during the fiscal year, including musicals, comedies, and dramas. Productions employed professional actors, directors, designers, and technicians, providing paid opportunities for artists while delivering high-quality live theatre to the community. Professional programming served approximately 16,365 attendees, with 30% traveling from outside the local market. Productions took place at the organization's 17,600 square foot facility at grand boulevard in miramar beach, florida. The organization is the only year-round professional theatre in the tri-county region of walton, okaloosa, and bay counties.
$1,731,029 spent$1,386,000 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe organization provided year-round theatre education programming serving over 850 student registrants ages 5-18. Programs included after-school classes, weekend workshops, summer camps, and youth productions across multiple skill levels: mini players (ages 5-7), little and big players (elementary), teen players (middle and high school), and a pre-professional junior company for high school students. The organization operates junior thespian troupe #89447, which competes at the state level. Educational programming develops confidence, literacy, collaboration, and creative expression skills in young people throughout northwest florida.
The organization produced literature-based theatre for young audiences (tya) productions designed for school field trips and family audiences, reaching approximately 2,400 attendees annually. Tya attendees were students attending on school field trips from over 25 schools across the region. The organization provided free and reduced-price tickets to title I schools to ensure accessibility. Tya programming extends arts education access to students in walton, okaloosa, bay, and holmes counties. Community outreach extended across the county with over 20 free performances.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,731,029.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $224k to $572k (+155%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 4% · 2021 14% · 2022 3% · 2023 5% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $90k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY’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
EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 75% · 2022 61% · 2023 61% — 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
80% of EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 64% 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
84% of EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY'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 $59k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $310k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin 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
Organizations like EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY?
- EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $368,987 to it, the largest being THE ST JOE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($232,090). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $368,987 in grants to EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY?
- THE ST JOE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $232,090 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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