Oklahoma · Nonprofit
LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC
LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,125 to it, the largest being THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC ($175,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $507k
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma Inc does
Mission
To produce quality professional theatre in oklahoma; to encourage and educate talented individuals; to promote collaboration among the arts in our community; and to enrich the quality of life for the people of oklahoma.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Lyric theatre is the states leading professional theatre company employing more than 200 actors, musicians, and designers annually. Founded in 1963, lyric serves over 150,000 adults and youth with a year-around season of classic to contemporary musicals and plays featuring artisits from oklahoma and around the nation. Lyric creates full-scale productions on two stages at lyrics intimate 279-seat plaza theatre and the grand 2,400-seat civic center music hall. Lyric theatre is a regular recipient of press awards and critical acclaim for the excellence of its programming. Lyric theatre is a leader in theatrical training for youth with its thelma gaylord academy offering professional classes in all aspects of the performing arts. So that tuition fees are never a barrier to participation, lyric provides multiple scholarships each year to its ever growing and diverse student population. In addition, lyrics musical interactive theatrical touring program provides free-of-charge live theatre productions in schools throughout oklahoma. More than 90 schools and 48,000 students are served annually through lyrics popular touring program that has visited communities in more than fifty oklahoma…
$5,110,612 spent$2,699,166 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,110,612.
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 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $11M (−30%).
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: 2021 41% · 2022 12% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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 broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $59k → $84k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.0M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA 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
LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 43% · 2019 37% · 2020 93% · 2021 67% · 2022 40% · 2023 42% — 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
30% of LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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 LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $238k on record — $170k federal, $68k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$170k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Gen Govt$68k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Lyric in the Plaza LLC · disregarded
- Lyric Theatre Center for Theatrical Production and Design LLC · disregarded
- The Thelma Gaylord Lyric Theatre Endowment Fund · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC?
- LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,125 to it, the largest being THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC ($175,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $507,125 in grants to LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC?
- THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYRIC THEATRE OF OKLAHOMA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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