California · Nonprofit
FUSE THEATRE INC
FUSE THEATRE INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,042 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($18,833). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $33k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Fuse Theatre Inc does
Mission
Fuse Creates meaningful theater experiences to foster civic engagement See Schedule O, Statement 3
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Tomás and the Library Lady Tour - After a challenging start, Fuse was able to have a short tour in the fall of 2024. TLL was the very first production for Fuse in 2016! This marks the return of our touring programming.
$11,375 spentof which $700 as grants40% of program spendingBloom Development - Elana Hershman and the NYC team developed Fuse's first piece of Theatre for the Very Young. Bee, Squirrel, Ant and Bird explore each part of the tree that they call home. Participants dance, sing, and work as a team to get their tree to BLOOM!
$2,500 spent9% of program spendingLodi Fresh Ink Fest - Partnering with Changing Faces Theater Company in Lodi, CA, Fuse launched a 10minute play festival for young playwrights. .Writing mentorship began in August 2024. Submission were due November 1, 2024.
$0 spent0% of program spendingTheatre For Trees Workshops and events - Our Theatre for Trees program, despite not securing funding for a fully produced project, provided community workshops - a staff development day with Planting Justice and two workshops at the Sports Basement in Berkeley. Fuse also participated in tree planting with Biological Reserve Cerro Hermoso. Workshops and events will continue until the project is fully funded.
$2,534 spent9% of program spendingOnline Content - Sahar Muhsin-Laufman continued to curate online programming for Fuse's YouTube channel. Artist interviews, workshops and creative dialogues round out this year's content
$623 spent2% of program spendingCommunity Events - Fuse continued to offer Cabaret Nights, Game Nights and a new Sing-along! These events are important in developing community and participant engagement.
$6,492 spent23% of program spendingIgnite Artists - This program fosters artistic collaborations and supports the development of new plays at Fuse. Fuse develops new works in several ways: we support artists from within Fuse as they write and develop new projects, support playwrights from outside of Fuse by producing their original unpublished works, and collaborate with artistic partners to create new works.
$4,905 spent17% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,429.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $28k to $55k (+99%).
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.
98% of FUSE THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Julie Wiley
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $209.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 FUSE THEATRE 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
FUSE THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 FUSE THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
59% of FUSE THEATRE 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 $13k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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
FUSE THEATRE INC's revenue fell 24% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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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 FUSE THEATRE 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds FUSE THEATRE INC?
- FUSE THEATRE INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,042 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($18,833). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FUSE THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $32,042 in grants to FUSE THEATRE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUSE THEATRE INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $18,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUSE THEATRE INC 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.
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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 4 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