Vermont · Nonprofit
LOST NATION THEATER INC
LOST NATION THEATER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,635 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($116,525). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $285k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $265k
- Net assets
- $278k
What Lost Nation Theater Inc does
Mission
Lost nation theater is dedicated to creating stimulating drama and educational programs in original and innovative ways; to the hopeful possibilities of human interaction; and to using theater as an effective force and catalyst for personal and community transformation.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
We adjusted programs to the Covid crisis and restrictions. All scheduled shows, youth camps and events were cancelled. Program format changed from live, inside due to COVID stopping inside performances. The city hall building was closed to the public March 18, 2020. Being housed on the 2nd & 3rd floor of city hall forced us to shut our city hall business office and to cease doing live performances. Staff was furloughed March 31, 2020: Directors April 20 - May 21. Accounting Apr 1, 2020- Aug21.Directors started immediately working to gain skills & equipment to stream videos of previous shows online, making and streaming interviews of actors, technicians and designers, and creating and holding online theater skill building workshops. They worked very hard to create materials that would provide the theater a lively online present and maintain our audience base. In 2022 the theater reopened with live performances and youth camps, using many health precautions, like air purifiers, vaccinations and facial coverings requirements
$99,002 spent$17,144 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2020 Form 990. Program spending in total: $99,002.
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.
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 $65k to $268k (+312%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2021 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Laurie Callahan
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $16k → $90k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 LOST NATION THEATER 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
LOST NATION THEATER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 LOST NATION THEATER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 58% · 2019 68% · 2020 55% · 2021 81% · 2022 72% · 2023 39% — 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
50% of LOST NATION THEATER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
57% of LOST NATION THEATER INC'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. Of the $114k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $151k 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.
Organizations like LOST NATION THEATER INC
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOST NATION THEATER INC: 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 LOST NATION THEATER INC?
- LOST NATION THEATER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,635 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($116,525). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOST NATION THEATER INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $264,635 in grants to LOST NATION THEATER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOST NATION THEATER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $116,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOST NATION THEATER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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