Michigan · Nonprofit
ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC
ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,654 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($60,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $138k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $173k
- Net assets
- $244k
What Enter Stage Right Inc does
Mission
Enter Stage Rights primary exempt purpose is to bring powerful theatre to entertain, enlighten, and inspire our community. ESR accomplished this goal by producing 9 productions, 3 partnered/community events, 2 theatre based classes, secured 1 grant award to improve our programs and physical space, and continuously improved our artistic and business processes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
9 Theatre Productions: Our Town, The Elephant Man, Steel Magnolias, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Home, I'm Darling, The Tragedie of King Lear, The Laramie Project, Dracula, and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer the Musical.
$29,996 spent86% of program spendingClasses offered: Fundraiser training, Director and Producer Retreat
$4,547 spentof which $3,500 as grants13% of program spendingPartnered and Community Events: The Eatles Concert, The Vampire Ball, Los Dias Del Muertos
$500 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,043.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $110k to $253k (+131%).
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.
34% of ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Regina Spain
Executive Director
Board chair
Brian Spain
Board Chair/Treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $28k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 ENTER STAGE RIGHT 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
ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 100% · 2022 63% · 2023 57% — 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
93% of ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k 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
ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$16k
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 ENTER STAGE RIGHT 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
56%
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 ENTER STAGE RIGHT 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC?
- ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,654 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($60,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $172,654 in grants to ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $60,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENTER STAGE RIGHT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Enter Stage Right →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), 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