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Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre

Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,025 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($71,805). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$54k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$85k
Net assets
$17k
3/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre does

Mission

To promote theatre and arts in Lancaster

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Summer Mainstage Performance

    $8,950 spent
    31% of program spending

  2. Winter Performance

    $11,678 spent
    40% of program spending

  3. Fall Performance

    $3,313 spent
    11% of program spending

  4. Other program services

    $5,084 spent
    18% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,025.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Jeremiah Miller

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $18k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
2
2
3
1
1

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Lancaster Shakespeare 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

Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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

100% 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 Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre.

84%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 55% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $85k to it.

Operating margin−15% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre

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 Pennsylvania

Shakespeare Page to Stage79%Little Theater Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania77%Bedford County Players77%Avon Grove Community Theater76%Creative Works of Lancaster76%Langhorne Players Inc76%Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre76%The West Chester and Barley Sheaf Players76%

Nationally

Shakespeare Page to Stage79%Childrens Shakespeare Theatre Inc79%Community Playhouse of Lancaster County Inc79%Lancaster Players Inc78%Laurens County Community Theatre Inc78%Little Theater Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania77%The Theater Project77%Bedford County Players77%
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 Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre?
Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,025 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($71,805). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $85,025 in grants to Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre?
LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $71,805 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 3 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