Virginia · Nonprofit
Encore Stage and Studio Inc
Encore Stage and Studio Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,986 to it, the largest being WILLIAM S ABELL FOUNDATION INC ($95,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $288k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Encore Stage and Studio Inc does
Mission
Inspire young people to develop the creativity, empathy and confidence they need to create meaningful connections with peers and have a positive impact in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Production - We are more than just an arts education program - we are a producing theatre company that puts the process of creating theatre into the hands of young people. Encores seasons include seven fully realized productions, including musicals and plays. In addition to the all-youth cast and crew, older youth take on leadership roles such as properties master, light board operator, and ultimately, stage manager. Our summer production program casts youth, as well as college students and adult community members, in a larger musical production. Notably, there is no fee to participate in a production as a cast or crew member.
$327,829 spent38% of program spendingEducation - For over 50 years, Encore has given hundreds of thousands of young people the opportunity to grow and discover themselves through theatre: onstage, backstage, in the classroom, and in the audience. We offer a vibrant selection of educational classes, workshops, and summer programs, including outreach, to underserved children and youth with community partners.
$538,258 spent62% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $866,087.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $572k to $892k (+56%).
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: 2017 6% · 2021 9% · 2022 26% · 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of Encore Stage and Studio Inc’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. 1 of the last 9 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
Sara Duke
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $18k → $71k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Encore Stage and Studio 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
Encore Stage and Studio Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
37% 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 Encore Stage and Studio Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 63% · 2019 92% · 2020 37% · 2021 50% · 2022 63% · 2023 35% — 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
67% of Encore Stage and Studio Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
Encore Stage and Studio Inc draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Encore Stage and Studio Inc is better cushioned 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
Government funding Encore Stage and Studio Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Encore Stage and Studio Inc
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Encore Stage and Studio Inc: 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 Encore Stage and Studio Inc?
- Encore Stage and Studio Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,986 to it, the largest being WILLIAM S ABELL FOUNDATION INC ($95,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Encore Stage and Studio Inc have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $287,986 in grants to Encore Stage and Studio Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Encore Stage and Studio Inc?
- WILLIAM S ABELL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Encore Stage and Studio Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 18 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