California · Nonprofit
L A THEATRE WORKS
L A THEATRE WORKS (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,102,110 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($1,450,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $547k
What L a Theatre Works does
Mission
To enrich the cultural life of our national community through the use of innovative technologies to produce and preserve significant works of dramatic literature on audio, and to assure the widest public access to these great works.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Audio publishing - the organization makes its audio theatre collection available in cd and digital form to the general public and community libraries through the organization's website, and partners including audible.com and itunes.
$444,464 spent$152,541 earned by the program40% of program spendingHd project - the hd project brings high-definition(hd) digital video broadcasts of notable theatre performances to cinema audience at our performance venue in los angeles and otherequipped cinemas worldwide.
$154,666 spent14% of program spendingRadio - weekly broadcasts that make theatre widely and easilyaccessible to audiences nationwide. These audiences experience radiodrama that is contemporary, edgy, and significant through thisaward-winning, critically accaimed radio theatre series on public radiostations thorughout the united states. Additionally, national and internationalaudiences listen via online streaming and podcasts.
$376,598 spent34% of program spendingTour - the organization produces and tours one to two productions a year to various college campuses and civic performing arts centers across the united states.
$74,164 spent7% of program spendingEducation-the organization distributes plays and education materials in cd and digital form free of charge to public schools.
$12,843 spent1% of program spendingLives series - due to the pandemic, latw recorded titles in-studio and made the audio recordings available to our live series subscribers and individual ticket buyers.
$42,371 spent$172,528 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,105,106.
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.
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 $1.4M to $2.1M (+54%).
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 7% · 2018 10% · 2019 8% · 2020 13% · 2021 26% · 2022 58% · 2023 8% · 2024 32% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 14 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $330k → $558k.
9 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 L A THEATRE WORKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
L A THEATRE WORKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 44% · 2019 57% · 2020 55% · 2021 81% · 2022 45% · 2023 52% — 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
39% of L A THEATRE WORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
L A THEATRE WORKS draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $333k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding L A THEATRE WORKS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$90k
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 L A THEATRE WORKS
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 L A THEATRE WORKS: 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 L A THEATRE WORKS?
- L A THEATRE WORKS (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,102,110 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($1,450,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does L A THEATRE WORKS have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $3,102,110 in grants to L A THEATRE WORKS, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of L A THEATRE WORKS?
- ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like L A THEATRE WORKS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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