Wisconsin · Nonprofit
La Crosse Community Theatre
La Crosse Community Theatre (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,094 to it, the largest being LYCHE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($330,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
La Crosse Community Theatre's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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 Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881localportfolio match
- Great Rivers United Way Incshared funderslocal
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio 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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2022 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of La Crosse Community Theatre’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $70k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $140k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Fund for the Arts and Humanities). These are real filings, and they are not money La Crosse Community Theatre raised.
From the IRS filings of La Crosse Community Theatre’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
La Crosse Community Theatre leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 La Crosse Community Theatre.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 54% · 2019 44% · 2020 46% · 2021 59% · 2022 80% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.
“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
67% of La Crosse Community Theatre's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
86% of La Crosse Community Theatre's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311k 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.
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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881localportfolio matchWI · funds 18 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Great Rivers United Way Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 21 organizations near you
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alm Charities Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 45 organizations near you
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Theater Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sakiyama Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bayless Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jim and Linda Lee Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- League of Chicago Theatres Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coolidge Corner Theatre 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.
Organizations like La Crosse Community Theatre
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- La Crosse Performing Arts Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for La Crosse Community Theatre: 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 La Crosse Community Theatre?
- La Crosse Community Theatre (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,094 to it, the largest being LYCHE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($330,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does La Crosse Community Theatre have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $846,094 in grants to La Crosse Community Theatre, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of La Crosse Community Theatre?
- LYCHE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like La Crosse Community Theatre find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13funders 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