Nebraska · Nonprofit
GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS
GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS (Nebraska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,500 to it, the largest being Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund ($350,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $859k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $271k
What Great Plains Theatre Commons does
Mission
The mission of the Great Plains Theatre Commons is to strengthen community by supporting the creation and sharing of diverse new stories.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
New play festival. We held our national new play festival on may 25th-31st. The npf included play development for 10 plays and playwrights. Each play had a team of creatives including a director, actors, dramaturg, and designers. Over 1,000 people, including attendees, were involved.
$273,656 spent$9,425 earned by the program58% of program spendingCommons season. Commons season is our season of fully produced plays. The plays this past year included a body in the wild grass, stuck with lemons, and stains. Each production was in person and streamed online. The total number of artists and audience involved was 792.
$105,730 spent22% of program spendingCommunity programs. Our community programs include year round development for beginning and advanced playwrights, local and national theatre workshops and panels, arts workshops with other nonprofit organizations. The total number of community members involved with our community programs was 1247.
$93,857 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $473,243.
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 $368k to $199k (−46%).
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: 2021 24% · 2022 36% · 2023 8% · 2024 8% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $58k → $140k.
From the IRS filings of GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS’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
GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2021 31% · 2022 31% · 2023 54% — 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
60% of GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% 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
97% of GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS's grant income comes from Nebraska 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
GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS 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 GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $245k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$245k
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 GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS: 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 GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS?
- GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS (Nebraska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,500 to it, the largest being Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund ($350,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,082,500 in grants to GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS?
- Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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