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Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc

Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,304 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($331,036). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$256k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$341k
Net assets
$274k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc does

Mission

Theatre for young audiences and arts education organization dedicated to expanding access to theatre and arts learning opportunities for children, families, and educators.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. InterAct Story Theatre presented arts education programming to schools in Maryland, Virginia, and DC; these included performances, workshops, artist-in-residence programs, and professional development for teachers and artists.

    $153,655 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. InterAct Story Theatre, a key arts organization in the Wheaton Arts and Entertainment District, presented the Wheaton Family Theatre Series, a free performing arts series for children and families in Wheaton, MD.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $153,655.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($312k) Expenses 100 ($272k) Net assets 100 ($127k)2018 Revenue 106 ($331k) Expenses 108 ($296k) Net assets 152 ($194k)2019 Revenue 103 ($320k) Expenses 112 ($305k) Net assets 148 ($189k)2020 Revenue 86 ($269k) Expenses 106 ($289k) Net assets 133 ($169k)2021 Revenue 77 ($240k) Expenses 85 ($232k) Net assets 139 ($178k)2022 Revenue 95 ($297k) Expenses 94 ($257k) Net assets 170 ($217k)2023 Revenue 105 ($326k) Expenses 106 ($288k) Net assets 200 ($255k)2024 Revenue 85 ($264k) Expenses 96 ($261k) Net assets 212 ($270k)2025 Revenue 82 ($256k) Expenses 92 ($252k) Net assets 215 ($274k)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (92)Net assets (215)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 2017 to 2018, from $145k to $202k (+40%).

$145k
$202k
$195k
$220k
$234k
$279k
$301k
$281k
$286k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 37% · 2022 21% · 2023 38% · 2024 21% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

65% of Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$39k
’17
$35k
’18
$15k
’19
−$19k
’20
$8k
’21
$39k
’22
$38k
’23
$4k
’24
$4k
’25
11
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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $21k → $58k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Interact Story Theatre Education Association 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

Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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

100% 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 Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 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

100% of Interact Story Theatre Education Association 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 $200 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $341k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve10.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $470k on record.

State$470k
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Top programs
  • Grant$470k

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 Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc

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 Maryland

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 29%Fundraising 10%

Governance

7
board members
71%
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc?
Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,304 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($331,036). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $341,304 in grants to Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc?
ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER is the largest funder on record, with $331,036 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Interact Story Theatre Education Association Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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