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FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC

FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,000 to it, the largest being FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 767 AERIE ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$762k
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
$56k
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin91% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve39.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($344k) Expenses 100 ($37k) Net assets 100 ($308k)2022 Revenue 104 ($359k) Expenses 128 ($47k) Net assets 202 ($621k)2023 Revenue 93 ($321k) Expenses 198 ($73k) Net assets 284 ($874k)2024 Revenue 221 ($762k) Expenses 187 ($69k) Net assets 509 ($1.6M)
2021202220232024
Revenue (221)Expenses (187)Net assets (509)Peer revenue range

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 28% · 2022 26% · 2023 10% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$308k
21
$312k
22
$248k
23
$693k
24
40
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)45% 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 FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE 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

FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

91% 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 FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC.

46%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

89%

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 FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC?
FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,000 to it, the largest being FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 767 AERIE ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $56,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC?
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 767 AERIE is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE SAINT MARYS THEATER AND GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing