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Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc

Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,852,400 to it, the largest being Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ($2,852,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$518k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$2.9M
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 100%

Against its field

Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc's revenue fell 39% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−198% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($843k) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($5.8M)2018 Revenue 73 ($617k) Expenses 79 ($934k) Net assets 95 ($5.5M)2019 Revenue 71 ($597k) Expenses 72 ($855k) Net assets 90 ($5.2M)2020 Revenue 47 ($401k) Expenses 65 ($777k) Net assets 84 ($4.8M)2021 Revenue 36 ($300k) Expenses 42 ($496k) Net assets 80 ($4.6M)2022 Revenue 45 ($376k) Expenses 68 ($809k) Net assets 73 ($4.2M)2023 Revenue 45 ($382k) Expenses 102 ($1.2M) Net assets 58 ($3.4M)2024 Revenue 53 ($448k) Expenses 112 ($1.3M) Net assets 43 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 61 ($518k) Expenses 130 ($1.5M) Net assets 25 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (61)Expenses (130)Net assets (25)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

58% of Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$343k
17
$316k
18
$258k
19
$376k
20
$196k
21
$433k
22
$831k
23
$876k
24
$1.0M
25
0.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500k → $300k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc

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 Georgia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
44%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Savannah College of Art & Design Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lucas Theatre for the Arts 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 Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc?
Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,852,400 to it, the largest being Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ($2,852,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,852,400 in grants to Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc?
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc is the largest funder on record, with $2,852,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lucas Theatre for the Arts Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing