North Carolina · Nonprofit
HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER
HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,800 to it, the largest being ARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG INC ($9,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $43k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Hough Theater Booster does
Mission
Hough Theater Booster inc exists to support and enhance the theatre program at william amos hough high school by providing volunteers, fundraising, and community engagement that expand educational and performance opportunities for student participants. The organization fosters the development of creativity, collaboration, and technical theatre skills while enriching the cultural life of the school and local community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization supported the hough high school theatre department by coordinating ticket sales, volunteers, concessions, and other operational needs for theatre productions. These activities provided essential logistical and financial support, enabling students to participate in theatrical performances and related educational opportunities.
$37,586 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,586.
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 at each year end, in dollars.
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.
0% of HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER’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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $500.
From the IRS filings of HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER’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
HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
95% 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 HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 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
95% of HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER's grant income comes from North Carolina 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
HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER: 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 HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER?
- HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,800 to it, the largest being ARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG INC ($9,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,800 in grants to HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER?
- ARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUGH THEATER BOOSTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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