New Jersey · Nonprofit
GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC
GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC (New Jersey) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,629,397 to it, the largest being LAURENTSHATCHER FOUNDATION INC ($4,755,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $664k
What George Street Playhouseinc does
Mission
The mission is to enrich people's lives by producing quality theatre with challenging new works, re-imagined classics, and theatre education programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
George street playhouse (gsp) is a professional regional theatre company located in new brunswick, nj. Our mission is to "enrich people's lives through world-class theatre." each season, we demonstrate our commitment to producing new and re-imagined works through our world-class mainstage series of plays and musicals.gsp is proud to have premiered several plays that have gone on to successful new york broadway and off-broadway runs, garnering national attention. Gsp's education department offers theatre classes for youth and adults, cultivating the next generation of american theater voices, makers, and supporters.
$4,487,177 spent$1,056,645 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,487,177.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.6M to $7.0M (+336%).
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: 2017 15% · 2018 7% · 2019 10% · 2020 20% · 2021 37% · 2022 31% · 2023 15% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Edgar Herrera Arizmendi
Executive director
Board chair
James N Heston
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $419k → $1.3M.
13 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 funders by total. 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
GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 70%; 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 72% · 2018 48% · 2019 50% · 2020 36% · 2021 46% · 2022 35% · 2023 53% — 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
55% of GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.4M on record — $70k federal, $5.4M state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$70k
- GRANT IN AID$5.1M
- FEDERAL$266k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$6k
- DEDICATED$320
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 GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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 GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC: 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 GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC?
- GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC (New Jersey) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,629,397 to it, the largest being LAURENTSHATCHER FOUNDATION INC ($4,755,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $13,629,397 in grants to GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC?
- LAURENTSHATCHER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,755,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 62 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