Texas · Nonprofit
GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE
GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,640 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($305,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $274k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $351k
- Net assets
- $108k
What Glass Half Full Theatre does
Mission
Glass Half Full Theatre (puppetry of objects & ideas) innovates performance structure and audience experience with original works featuring both humans and puppets to address complex problems through an optimistic lens. Our bilingual performances spotlight the latinx community, crossing linguistic and cultural boundaries towards the heart of the imagination, where artists and audiences examine how oppressive power structures work and how they can be overcome.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Austin-based performances for youth and adult audiences in theaters and public spaces.
$163,842 spent$63,526 earned by the program63% of program spendingTouring performances nationally to performing arts centers.
$81,921 spent$29,320 earned by the program32% of program spendingEducational: arts education and presenting methodology for conference/educational audiences.
$13,655 spent$4,887 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $259,418.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $75k to $111k (+47%).
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: 2024 44% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Joann Carreon Reyes
President/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $58k.
From the IRS filings of GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE’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
GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 74% — 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.
Where its funders are
89% of GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
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 GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE: 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 GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE?
- GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,640 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($305,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $350,640 in grants to GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE?
- GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLASS HALF FULL THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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