Texas · Nonprofit
KITCHEN DOG THEATER
KITCHEN DOG THEATER (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,555,124 to it, the largest being MARCH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($572,175). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KITCHEN DOG THEATER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Lucille Lortel Foundation Incshared funders
- Bayless Family Foundationportfolio match
- Theater League Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 13% · 2018 13% · 2019 10% · 2020 8% · 2021 35% · 2022 55% · 2023 36% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of KITCHEN DOG THEATER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $133k → $308k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 KITCHEN DOG THEATER’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
KITCHEN DOG THEATER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 KITCHEN DOG THEATER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 40% · 2019 42% · 2020 27% · 2021 24% · 2022 29% · 2023 72% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of KITCHEN DOG THEATER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
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
88% of KITCHEN DOG THEATER's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $334k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Lucille Lortel Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Bayless Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theatre Communications Group Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Golden Fund Inc Co John Breglio-Paul Weiss Et Alportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Alliance for Musical Theatre Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theatre Bay Areaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Piece by Piece Productions Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roy Cockrum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry S Moss Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- The Jim Henson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding KITCHEN DOG THEATER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$55k
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 KITCHEN DOG THEATER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 KITCHEN DOG THEATER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KITCHEN DOG THEATER?
- KITCHEN DOG THEATER (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,555,124 to it, the largest being MARCH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($572,175). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KITCHEN DOG THEATER have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,555,124 in grants to KITCHEN DOG THEATER, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KITCHEN DOG THEATER?
- MARCH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $572,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KITCHEN DOG THEATER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing