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LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC

LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,500 to it, the largest being LAKE CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($32,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$71k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$69k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Lake City Community Theater Inc does

Mission

To cultivate a community of educated and involved consumers of the arts by providing trained supervision through the staging of theatrical and musical productions for the benefit of people living in lake city and the surrounding areas.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. To cultivate a community of educated and involved consumers of the arts by providing trained supervision through the staging of theatrical and musical productions for the benefit of people living in lake city and the surrounding areas.

    $49,205 spent
    90% of program spending
  2. To cultivate a community of educated and involved consumers of the arts by providing trained supervision through the staging of theatrical and musical productions for the benefit of people living in lake city and the surrounding areas.

    $5,199 spent
    10% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $54,404.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($74k) Expenses 100 ($70k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2019 Revenue 100 ($74k) Expenses 97 ($68k) Net assets 110 ($68k)2020 Revenue 97 ($72k) Expenses 97 ($68k) Net assets 117 ($73k)2021 Revenue 5 ($4k) Expenses 13 ($9k) Net assets 108 ($67k)2022 Revenue 23 ($17k) Expenses 24 ($17k) Net assets 108 ($67k)2023 Revenue 68 ($50k) Expenses 81 ($57k) Net assets 97 ($60k)2024 Revenue 83 ($62k) Expenses 91 ($64k) Net assets 94 ($58k)2025 Revenue 94 ($70k) Expenses 97 ($68k) Net assets 96 ($60k)2026 Revenue 96 ($71k) Expenses 88 ($62k) Net assets 110 ($69k)
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Revenue (96)Expenses (88)Net assets (110)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $61k to $70k (+14%).

$62k
$68k
$73k
$67k
$67k
$61k
$59k
$61k
$70k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’18
$6k
’19
$4k
’20
−$5k
’21
$682
’22
−$7k
’23
−$2k
’24
$2k
’25
$9k
’26
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $8k.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC’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

LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

81% 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 LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC.

81%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

81% of LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC

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 South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC?
LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,500 to it, the largest being LAKE CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($32,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $39,500 in grants to LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC?
LAKE CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE CITY COMMUNITY THEATER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), and the filings of 2 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