Ohio · Nonprofit
LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY
LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,370 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($57,317). 2 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 FY2025
- $161k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $360k
What Little Theatre Off Broadway does
Mission
Little Theatre Off Broadway strives to give artists a place for artistic and technical expression through theatre performance and to provide the community with opportunities to experience the performing arts. LTOB is committed to producing quality shows that provide our audiences with outstanding programing and is focused on growing our attendance by providing reasonably priced and easily accessible programing to our loyal audiences. We are in the process of selecting the dramas, comedies, and musicals for the 2023-2024 season from a pool of proposed shows, which includes On Golden Pond, RENT, Baskerville, Much Ado About Nothing, The Psychic, Big Fish, and Something Rotten. We will focus on audience favorites, with at least two family-friendly shows, ensuring strong attendance and supporting our ongoing goal of fiscal responsibility. We also endeavor to include at least one lesser-known play each season, supporting LTOB's goal of bringing new programing to our audiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Little Theatre Off Broadway is invested to create a beautiful home in the heart of Grove City that welcomes all to the world of theatre. This program helped make our building more inviting, thus making our community more inviting, and insuring the building will stand for generations to come.
$17,500 spentof which $12,500 as grants22% of program spendingLittle Theatre Off Broadway is invested in our youth, thus what propels our Kids Theater Class. The class runs twice a year and normally has 40-50 kids per session learning what it takes to express live theater.
$5,500 spentof which $4,500 as grants7% of program spendingLittle Theatre Off Broadway is committed to perform 6 performance runs throughout the year. This typically consists of 2 Musicals, 2 Comedies, 1 Drama, and 1 summer performance.
$55,000 spentof which $65,000 as grants69% of program spendingLittle Theatre Off Broadway's Miscellaneous Accomplishments include movie showings, space rental, rehearsal space rental, storage rental, as well as agreements with local businesses.
$1,750 spentof which $2,500 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,750.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $318k to $360k (+13%).
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.
57% of LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY’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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $130 → $7k.
2 of 2 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 LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY’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
LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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 LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 95% · 2023 97% — 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 LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY'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. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY: 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 LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY?
- LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,370 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($57,317). 2 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 LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $58,370 in grants to LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $57,317 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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