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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.

$976k
Revenue FY2025
13
Funders on record
$846k
Grants received
$113k
Net assets
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%

Against its field

La Crosse Community Theatre's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−37% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($730k) Expenses 100 ($815k) Net assets -48 ($-67818)2018 Revenue 147 ($1.1M) Expenses 106 ($864k) Net assets 100 ($142k)2019 Revenue 132 ($966k) Expenses 110 ($897k) Net assets 149 ($211k)2020 Revenue 97 ($706k) Expenses 91 ($743k) Net assets 122 ($174k)2022 Revenue 148 ($1.1M) Expenses 128 ($1.0M) Net assets 245 ($349k)2023 Revenue 153 ($1.1M) Expenses 141 ($1.2M) Net assets 222 ($316k)2024 Revenue 196 ($1.4M) Expenses 156 ($1.3M) Net assets 333 ($474k)2025 Revenue 134 ($976k) Expenses 164 ($1.3M) Net assets 80 ($113k)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (164)Net assets (80)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$84k
17
$210k
18
$69k
19
$37k
20
$37k
22
$33k
23
$157k
24
$361k
25
1.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

39%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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.

MN
WI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 20%Fundraising 6%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

WI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • La Crosse Performing Arts Center · exempt

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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.

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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