California · Nonprofit
LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC
LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,077 to it, the largest being THE FONDA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Los Angeles Drama Club Inc does
Mission
In the spirit of cultural generosity and with the goal of creative excellence, we create diverse communities of belonging and self-empowerment with children and youth locally and across the globe through the magic of theater, and we do it all in Iambic Pentameter. Los Angeles Drama Club has built an ongoing artistic community of children/youth who, through the creative process of "putting on a play" have found a passion, a purpose, and a safe place to express themselves and gain self-worth from their collective accomplishments. We use the diverse themes of Shakespeare, universal to the human condition, to shed light on the consequences of our choices. We are the only youth arts company in which children from across Los Angeles, and from vastly different socioeconomic backgrounds, come together for the purpose of rehearsing and performing full Shakespeare productions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Shakespeare Youth Festival LA - March 8 to March 30, 2025. We presented three productions - Troilus and Cressida, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and As You Like It. 37 children, ages 7 through 18 participated. Each play is the culmination of 14 to 18 weekly rehearsal sessions. In the Fall of 2025, we began in-person rehearsals for SYF 2026. 33 children made up the casts of three plays. Approx 65% of our students received financial aid allowing them to participate at no or very low cost.
$38,535 spent76% of program spendingSummer with SYF - July 7 to August 2, 2025. We conducted four weeks of a summer day camp. 48 children, ages 7 to 12, participated as campers, presenting two recitals, and 21 teens, age 13 to 18, served as mentors and coaches for the younger students, then presented two productions (with 2 performance each) Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night
$12,013 spent24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,548.
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 2022 to 2023, from $50k to $1k (−98%).
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 15% · 2018 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $31.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB 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
LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 47% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
14% of LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
69% of LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC's revenue fell 44% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC?
- LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,077 to it, the largest being THE FONDA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $59,077 in grants to LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC?
- THE FONDA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 8 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