Ohio · Nonprofit
HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE
HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,879 to it, the largest being THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $213k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $-19978
What Heights Youth Theatre does
Mission
Heights Youth Theatre is one of the oldest children's theaters in the country, offering kids aged 6 - 18 high quality theatrical experiences and training for 65+ years, while also creating well rounded creative individuals. The mission of the Heights Youth Theatre is to provide instruction in theatre arts for children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Heights Youth Theatre performed three theatrical productions during its fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.
$71,211 spent$68,792 earned by the program47% of program spendingDuring the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, Heights Youth Theatre operated a summer camp program for children.
$80,302 spent$63,206 earned by the program53% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $151,513.
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 2024 to 2025, from $6k to $231 (−96%).
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.
47% of HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE’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 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.
Chief executive
Pamela Fine
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $23.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 HEIGHTS YOUTH 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
HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 86% · 2020 71% · 2021 98% · 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
68% of HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HEIGHTS YOUTH 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
Organizations like HEIGHTS YOUTH 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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 HEIGHTS YOUTH 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 HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE?
- HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,879 to it, the largest being THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $16,879 in grants to HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE?
- THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 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