California · Nonprofit
Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta
Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,548,131 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,220,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $684k
What Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta does
Mission
The imaginists is an artist run, experimental performing arts organizaiton that explores the intersection of art and community. We continually re-think performance: who participates, where it happens, and ...what is it?we honor the power of live performance as a vital space for transformation, imagination, and freedom.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Miracle days 5/25 - an original imaginists' production, is a dark, satirical, rock n roll musical exploring the power of imagination and those who are most threatened by it. This year's "week of visitations" brings unwelcome visions to a family on the edge of something so earth shatteringly big, it could only come from within.
$16,415 spent37% of program spendingOverwintering 12/24 - an original imaginists' production, is an immersive theater experience where small groups of spectators walk into and through the story. Overwintering is a musical journey exploring hibernation, and our relationship to the dark time of year.
$16,414 spent37% of program spendingGuest house residency (for travelers): programming which includes artist residencies, interdisciplinary collaborations, workshops, and performances. Guest house programs include:local, regional, national, and international artists come for residencies and collaborations that further discourse and exchange, expanding and diversifying the cultural life of our city. Emerging artist residencies give needed space and time for local emerging artists across disciplines. Colab residencies pair up established and emerging artists to share knowledge, resources, and provide mentorship. Working with other groups to create collaborative events and projects.
$11,887 spent27% of program spendingYouth education programming: the imaginists connect students, schools, and communities with artists to encourage creative freedom, activate the individual voice, and to discover the power of collaboration. The imaginists build long term elationships that invest in santa rosa youth. We focus on bridging the arts equity gap by providing high quality programming to students from title one schools. In school residencies include luther burbank elementary school residency and santa rosa high school.
Luther burbank elementary school residency 4/25 - the workshops introduce students to the art form of theater and devising orginal work. Students created original scenes based on aesop's ancient greek fables, which they were studying in class.
Santa rosa high school art quest 9/24 - 2/25 - the imaginists worked with level 3 theatre students to create an origina, devised one-act that was performed at the lenaea festival, a high school theatre festival. Performances were held fot srhs students, and the general public. Our original pla won gold, as well as the highest honor of the festival, the spirit of lenaea award.
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,716.
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.
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 $270k to $1.2M (+348%).
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 4% · 2018 0% · 2019 10% · 2020 12% · 2021 11% · 2022 10% · 2023 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Lisa Maldonado
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $254k → $112k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta’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
Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 93% · 2019 54% · 2020 71% · 2021 92% · 2022 53% · 2023 37% — 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
43% of Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
96% of Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $208k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
9% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta: 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 Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta?
- Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,548,131 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,220,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,548,131 in grants to Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,220,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Knights of Indulgence Theatre United Sta find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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