Oregon · Nonprofit
ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS
ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,315 to it, the largest being THE SALEM FOUNDATION ($126,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $196k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $242k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Enlightened Theatrics does
Mission
The mission of Enlightened Theatrics is to enrich and expand the arts experience of the mid-willamette valley through purposeful, professional productions and multifaceted theatre arts education.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Theatrical performances produced during 2023 include:dear elizabeth (professional march 10-19), could you hug a cactus? (educational may 5-7), james and the giant peach (professional/educational dec 8-17) our professional productions focus on our values of employ. We provide creative professionals the ability to gain skills and experience as experts in their crafts. Our goal is to provide experience to everyone in the age continuum. Our educational theatre productions focus on cultivating skills for performers at every age. With specific shows geared toward each age group, local youth to have the opportunity to work with industry professionals, learning through the kinesthetic act of performing musical theatre. These students come out of the program with a deeper understanding of not only theatre, but also teamwork, collaboration and time management skills. Their final assessment for understanding is brought into a culmination of performances for their parents and loved ones.
$36,683 spent$36,969 earned by the program31% of program spendingThrough et's all abilities camps, students increase their confidence and interpersonal, social, and communication skills by exploring improvisation, role play, character building and script writing. Each 90-minute class is broken into five 15-minute segments and covers such topics as 1) movement: being comfortable in movement and own personal space; 2) teamwork: ensemble building, working together; 3) theater: what is theater, what is the world of theater; 4) improvisation, how to improv and be a storyteller; 5) environment: use of bodies in established and different environments; 6) character assessment; and 7) ultimately building a story: taking all of the elements learned and putting those things together. If students are comfortable with it, camps conclude with a small, private presentation for families.camps will again be led by sarah olbrantz, an ma candidate in drama therapy at antioch university in seattle, wa. Olbrantz plans camps to include breaks, sensory sensitive rooms, and a safe space to learn, play and develop creative team-building skills. Based on feedback from last year, et is also seeking qualified volunteers from the mental health and disability field to…
$80,388 spent$9,769 earned by the program69% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $117,071.
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 2022 to 2023, from $189k to $44k (−77%).
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 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 33% · 2022 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Jessica Peterson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5 → $71k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS’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
ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 47% · 2022 52% · 2023 58% — 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
77% of ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS'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 $56k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $186k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS's revenue fell 78% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $41k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$41k
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 ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
36% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS: 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 ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS?
- ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,315 to it, the largest being THE SALEM FOUNDATION ($126,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $242,315 in grants to ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS?
- THE SALEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $126,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENLIGHTENED THEATRICS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 5 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