California · Nonprofit
MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,172,982 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($4,156,117). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What Marin Shakespeare Company does
Mission
With shakespeare as our endless inspiration, our mission is to serve as a vibrant catalyst for cultural engagement, education, and social justice to benefit the people of marin county, the san francisco bay area, and beyond.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Marin Shakespeare Company presents a summer season at the forest meadows amphitheatre on the campus of dominican university in san rafael, and year-round performances and events at their downtown theater at 514 fourth street in san rafael. Classes in acting and other theatre skills are offered to students aged five to adult year-round. Classes include in-school creative dramatics for elementary schools, in-school shakespeare workshops for middle and high schools, after-school classes for youth, summer camps for ages 519, and training programs in performance and technical theatre. Msc also offers performances for student audiences at both the outdoor and indoor venues. Msc has provided rehabilitative theatre programs in correctional facilities since 2003, including classes in shakespeare, autobiographical storytelling, acting for veterans, and drama therapy-inspired anger management. They also host various special events throughout the year.
$1,192,255 spent$783,544 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,192,255.
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 2018 to 2019, from $4.8M to $5.6M (+17%).
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: 2018 4% · 2019 11% · 2020 6% · 2022 31% · 2023 35% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’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. 1 of the last 7 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
E Craig Moody
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $365k → $1.0M.
10 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 81% · 2019 21% · 2020 28% · 2021 34% · 2022 61% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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 MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
74% of MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY'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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside California, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $7.2M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$65k
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 MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: 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 MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY?
- MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,172,982 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($4,156,117). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $7,172,982 in grants to MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY?
- MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,156,117 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 36 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