Minnesota · Nonprofit
GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC
GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,500 to it, the largest being ARROWHEAD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($37,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $143k
What Grand Rapids Players Inc does
Mission
The organization gives the community the opportunity to be educated about and participate in theatrical productions thereby fostering creativity
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Access to the arts
$46,612 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,612.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $90k to $148k (+65%).
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.
21% of GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS 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
GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 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
100% of GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC's grant income comes from Minnesota 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
GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC?
- GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,500 to it, the largest being ARROWHEAD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($37,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,500 in grants to GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC?
- ARROWHEAD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $37,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND RAPIDS PLAYERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2 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