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INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC

INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,272,094 to it, the largest being Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc ($842,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$654k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$522k
10/19 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Indianapolis Shakespeare Company Inc does

Mission

To share the joy of live professional theatre with all; to build community with indy's near northwest and beyond.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Indianapolis shakespeare company, inc. Is a professional theatre company dedicated to bringing quality theatre to indianapolis audiences. Our flagship production is our free outdoor shakespeare plays produced each summer.

    $287,555 spent$22,702 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $287,555.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($123k) Expenses 100 ($196k) Net assets 100 ($167k)2020 Revenue 115 ($141k) Expenses 31 ($61k) Net assets 148 ($247k)2021 Revenue 237 ($292k) Expenses 167 ($327k) Net assets 127 ($212k)2022 Revenue 284 ($350k) Expenses 129 ($253k) Net assets 185 ($309k)2023 Revenue 457 ($562k) Expenses 214 ($419k) Net assets 271 ($452k)2024 Revenue 532 ($654k) Expenses 303 ($592k) Net assets 313 ($522k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (532)Expenses (303)Net assets (313)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 2022 to 2023, from $318k to $457k (+44%).

$167k
$247k
$215k
$318k
$457k
$524k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 6% · 2020 5% · 2021 16% · 2022 14% · 2023 12% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$72k
’19
$80k
’20
−$35k
’21
$97k
’22
$143k
’23
$63k
’24
2.6
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed151721212017
Joined·+5+6+5+4+4
No longer listed·32557
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $50k → $974k.

7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY 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

INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% 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

37%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 33% · 2019 38% · 2020 38% · 2021 33% · 2022 42% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.

“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

67% of INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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 INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

MN
IN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $367k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)40% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.

Federal$35k
grants $35kcontracts $0
23
25
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$35k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 13%Fundraising 10%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC?
INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,272,094 to it, the largest being Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc ($842,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,272,094 in grants to INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC?
Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $842,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INDIANAPOLIS SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 19 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