Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS
FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,933 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($140,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $243k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $403k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Front Porch Theatricals does
Mission
To provice a public service to audiences through musical theater productions and to mentor college students through the internship/apprentice program
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Production of "baby". This show follows three couples on a university campus dealing with the painful, rewarding and unexpectedly funny consequences of the universal experience of pregnancy and parenthood. 8 performances, 802 patrons
$89,981 spent$22,696 earned by the program38% of program spendingProduction of "sunday in the park with george". This show was inspired by the french pointillist painter georges seurat's painting "a sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte". The plot revolves around george who immerses himself deeply in painting his masterpiece and his great-grandson, a conflicted and cynical contemporary artist. 8 performances, 1,794 patrons
$133,572 spent$58,960 earned by the program57% of program spendingInternship/apprentice program
$11,150 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $234,703.
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 2019 to 2020, from $40k to $135k (+237%).
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.
64% of FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS’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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $3k → $76k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS’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
FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 68% · 2019 96% · 2020 31% · 2021 71% · 2022 45% · 2023 40% — 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
30% of FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS: 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 FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS?
- FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,933 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($140,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $402,933 in grants to FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS?
- THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 16 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