Arizona · Nonprofit
Live Theatre Workshop
Live Theatre Workshop (Arizona) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $555,326 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($88,150). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $641k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $555k
- Net assets
- $807k
What Live Theatre Workshop does
Mission
Live Theatre Workshop provides theatre and theatre education in tucson that entertains, educates and enlightens children, adults, and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Live Theatre Workshop productions consist of three separate programs mainstage, children's, and etcetera late night. The mainstage program produces professional theatre that brings unique and diverse stories to the stage. This program serves more than 15,000 people annually and all artistic and support staff are local tucson artists. The children's theatre program produces year-round interactive musical theatre performances on our stage and in schools in the tucson community. The goal is to deepen our connection to kids so that theatre becomes a tradition for tucson families. Additionally, this program develops local playwright and composer talent by producting and commissioning new works by local artists. This program serves more than 5,000 people each year. The etcetera late-night program works with new and seasoned local theatre artists to create original performances that reflect the variety of tucson's culture and population, with the goal of unifying all of us through shared experiences. Etcetera works closely with high school theatre programs, the tucson creative community, and cultural organizations to produce an eclectic mix of theatre and music that is relevant to our…
$440,926 spent$346,267 earned by the program100% of program spendingLive Theatre Workshop's education program the theatre education program creates a safe place that allows diverse groups of young people to express their creativity while learning teamwork,building character, and gaining self-confidence and skills that prepare them to be innovative, empathetic and well-rounded adults. Each year, 3,000+ kids participate in a variety of beginning-to-advanced performance and technical classes. More than 30 schools are connected to the ltw education program. Ltw focuses on bringing theatre performance and education to title 1 schools many of which receive full and partial scholarships.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $440,926.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $279k to $2.0M (+612%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 10% · 2020 2% · 2021 40% · 2022 39% · 2023 7% · 2024 12% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of Live Theatre Workshop’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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Michael Martinez
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $18k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Live Theatre Workshop’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
Live Theatre Workshop has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
59% 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 Live Theatre Workshop.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 52% · 2019 54% · 2020 34% · 2021 41% · 2022 60% · 2023 57% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of Live Theatre Workshop's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
74% of Live Theatre Workshop's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Live Theatre Workshop's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Live Theatre Workshop
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Live Theatre Workshop: 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 Live Theatre Workshop?
- Live Theatre Workshop (Arizona) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $555,326 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($88,150). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Live Theatre Workshop have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $555,326 in grants to Live Theatre Workshop, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Live Theatre Workshop?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $88,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Live Theatre Workshop find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing