Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Gamut Theatre Group
Gamut Theatre Group (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $748,795 to it, the largest being IMPACT HARRISBURG ($250,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $600k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $749k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Gamut Theatre Group does
Mission
The mission of the theatre is to tell classic stories in new and exciting ways. Our vision is that all people cherish classic stories and share them with future generations. We create innovative and accessible theatre with an emphasis on
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Shakespear/Classical Mainstage Production. Provided in-person theatre
$182,460 spent$91,052 earned by the program35% of program spendingEducation Programs. Classes and camps year round to reach students and
$224,165 spent$100,744 earned by the program43% of program spendingRepertory Childrens Theatre, Popcorn Hot Players. Provided quality
$52,132 spent$15,058 earned by the program10% of program spendingTouring Theatre. Provides quality educational performances in venues such as public and charter schools, libraries, festivals, and private gatherings.
$62,558 spent$29,019 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $521,315.
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 $2.3M to $2.1M (−7%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 2% · 2020 16% · 2021 44% · 2022 18% · 2023 11% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of Gamut Theatre Group’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 6 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.
Chief executive
M Nicholson
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $76k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Gamut Theatre Group’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
Gamut Theatre Group has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
81% 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 Gamut Theatre Group.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 38% · 2021 31% · 2022 37% · 2023 33% — 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
44% of Gamut Theatre Group'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
71% of Gamut Theatre Group's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $310k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Gamut Theatre Group's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Gamut Theatre Group receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 Gamut Theatre Group
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Gamut Theatre Group: 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 Gamut Theatre Group?
- Gamut Theatre Group (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $748,795 to it, the largest being IMPACT HARRISBURG ($250,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Gamut Theatre Group have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $748,795 in grants to Gamut Theatre Group, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Gamut Theatre Group?
- IMPACT HARRISBURG is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Gamut Theatre Group 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing