Florida · Nonprofit
MAD COW THEATRE INC
MAD COW THEATRE INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,288 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ($62,981). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $281k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Mad Cow Theatre Inc does
Mission
Guided in the belief theatre is a dynamic means to social understanding, mad cow theatre, inc. Presents entertaining theatrical works to an ever-widening audience promoting, enhancing, and celebrating the human condition through art.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Mad cow theatre is celebrating its 24th season as one of orlando's most respected professional theatre companies, committed to presenting compelling works of theatre for a wide range of audiences, with a passion for both classic and contemporary plays representing the best of american and world literature. Mad cow theatre attracts the areas most talented actors, designers, and directors. A mainstay of the company is its dedication to the process of creating theatre, incorporating in-depth rehearsal and research periods along with a nurturing collaborative process. Mad cow theatre has continually expanded at a pace that reflects the need of the city around it, and today is no exception. Each year the theatre produces a ten play season, a spanish theatre reading series, a science play festival and a cabaret festival. Other activities include a touring performance in the schools, talkbacks and classes connecting the organization with the community.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2017 to 2018, from $4.0M to $3.7M (−8%).
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 16% · 2018 15% · 2019 11% · 2020 29% · 2021 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of MAD COW THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 5 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 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $19k → $31k.
2 of 6 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 MAD COW THEATRE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. 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
MAD COW THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 MAD COW THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 99% · 2022 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of MAD COW THEATRE INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
MAD COW THEATRE INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,558 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021
Government funding MAD COW THEATRE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $1k
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 MAD COW THEATRE 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MAD COW THEATRE 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 MAD COW THEATRE INC?
- MAD COW THEATRE INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,288 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ($62,981). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAD COW THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $89,288 in grants to MAD COW THEATRE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAD COW THEATRE INC?
- UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC is the largest funder on record, with $62,981 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAD COW THEATRE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 6 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