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HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC

HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,225 to it, the largest being HILLSDALE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($41,725). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$281k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$77k
Net assets
$446k
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Hillsdale Community Theatre Inc does

Mission

Promoted cultural experiences through theatre promotions and programs staged for community patron/members and performed by community members

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promoted cultural experiences through theatre promotions and programs staged for community patron/members and performed by community members

    $86,672 spent$280,777 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $86,672.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($153k) Expenses 100 ($146k) Net assets 100 ($436k)2022 Revenue 145 ($221k) Expenses 142 ($208k) Net assets 103 ($449k)2023 Revenue 181 ($276k) Expenses 186 ($272k) Net assets 104 ($453k)2025 Revenue 184 ($281k) Expenses 178 ($259k) Net assets 102 ($446k)
2021202220232025
Revenue (184)Expenses (178)Net assets (102)Peer revenue range

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 $436k to $449k (+3%).

$436k
$449k
$453k
$446k
2021202220232025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 39% · 2023 11% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

23% of HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’21
$14k
’22
$4k
’23
$21k
’25
1.9
months of
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.

202220232025
Listed131212
Joined·+1·
No longer listed·2·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $18k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE 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

HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC.

54%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 55% — 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

86% of HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI
MO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

33% of spending goes to programs.

Program 33%Management 60%Fundraising 7%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: 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 HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC?
HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,225 to it, the largest being HILLSDALE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($41,725). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $77,225 in grants to HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC?
HILLSDALE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing