Maine · Nonprofit
ISLE THEATER COMPANY INC
ISLE THEATER COMPANY INC (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,800 to it, the largest being Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Isle Theater Company Inc does
Mission
To enrich communities through theatrical educational and cultural programming. The organization develops and presents live theater productions storytelling events workshops and other arts-based programs that support artistic expression community engagement and public access to the performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Conducted theatrical development rehearsal and workshop activities in preparation for a planned stage production. The organization engaged actors directors designers photographers dramaturgs and other creative personnel in artistic development and production planning. Although the planned production was canceled prior to public performance after the playwright withdrew permission to use the script the organization continued to fulfill its exempt purpose through artist support rehearsal activities creative collaboration and advancement of community-based theater arts.
$50,823 spent96% of program spendingPresented DownEast Speaks a community storytelling and arts program that brought together local speakers artists and community members for public engagement through shared stories and cultural dialogue. The program furthered the organizations mission of promoting the arts and community participation through accessible public programming. Revenue was generated through ticket sales and admissions and participating artists speakers and creative personnel received stipends for their contributions.
$1,934 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,757.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $53k to $21k (−61%).
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.
84% of ISLE THEATER COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Marvin Merritt IV
Artistic and Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ISLE THEATER 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
ISLE THEATER COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“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
85% of ISLE THEATER COMPANY INC's grant income comes from Maine funders.
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
ISLE THEATER COMPANY INC's revenue fell 76% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ISLE THEATER COMPANY 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ISLE THEATER COMPANY 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 ISLE THEATER COMPANY INC?
- ISLE THEATER COMPANY INC (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,800 to it, the largest being Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ISLE THEATER COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,800 in grants to ISLE THEATER COMPANY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of ISLE THEATER COMPANY INC?
- Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ISLE THEATER COMPANY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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