California · Nonprofit
Falcon Playhouse Foundation
Falcon Playhouse Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE SCHALON FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $86k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Falcon Playhouse Foundation does
Mission
The Falcon Playhouse Foundation is an all-volunteer organization created to support and enhance the Falcon Playhouse, which is a student operated theatre program at Scripps Ranch High School, a public high school in San Diego, California. Through donations, boosters, and ticket sales, the Foundation helps fund costumes, equipment, lighting, tech support, and props for the theatre education and expand access and opportunities to programs for the students at Scripps Ranch High School.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Supported 4 student led Theater Productions by facilitating ticket sales, as well as the purchase of costumes, publications, stage equipment and supplies.
$53,353 spent80% of program spendingHosted the end of season celebration banquet for all students and supporting staff in the theatre department.
$4,580 spent7% of program spendingFacilitate approximately 35 students and theatre director's attendance at Thespian Festival
$8,592 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,525.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $27k to $43k (+57%).
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.
50% of Falcon Playhouse Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Falcon Playhouse Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
Falcon Playhouse Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Falcon Playhouse Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Falcon Playhouse Foundation
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Falcon Playhouse Foundation: 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 Falcon Playhouse Foundation?
- Falcon Playhouse Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE SCHALON FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Falcon Playhouse Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to Falcon Playhouse Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Falcon Playhouse Foundation?
- THE SCHALON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Falcon Playhouse Foundation 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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