Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $85k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- Library System of Lancaster Countyshared funderslocal
- Charlotte Cushman Foundationportfolio match
- Theater League Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $18k.
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.
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.
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.
- Library System of Lancaster Countyshared funderslocalPA · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · funds 14 organizations near you
- Charlotte Cushman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tri-M Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fox Theatre Inc F/K/A Atlanta Landmarks Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Play on Shakespeareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio 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 Lancaster Shakespeare 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lancaster Shakespeare 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 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.
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 3funders 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