South Carolina · Nonprofit
MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE
MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,851 to it, the largest being THE KERSCHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
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.
- The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundationshared funderslocal
- Fox Theatre Inc F/K/A Atlanta Landmarks Incportfolio match
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio match
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.
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 4% · 2018 7% · 2019 13% · 2020 10% · 2021 17% · 2022 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $16.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE’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
MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
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.
- The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalSC · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · funds 14 organizations near you
- Fox Theatre Inc F/K/A Atlanta Landmarks Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norman Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lake Region Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Action Alliance Foundation Dba Clackamas County Arts Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE?
- MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,851 to it, the largest being THE KERSCHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $38,851 in grants to MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE?
- THE KERSCHER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAIN STAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing