California · Nonprofit
Marin Theatre Company
Marin Theatre Company (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,103,134 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($808,210). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $920k
What Marin Theatre Company does
Mission
Marin Theatre Company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. Mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an intimate 231-seat proscenium theater. Mtc is committed to the development and production of new plays by american playwrights, with a comprehensive new play program that includes two national recognized annual playwriting awards, new play reading and workshops by the nation's best emerging playwrights, and a leadership position in the national play network. Mtc's numerous education programs serve more than 6,000 students each year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Marin Theatre Company is a professional regional theater committed to producing high quality live theater to engage, entertain, challenge and educate our audiences, thereby enriching the cultural life of our community. We provide a forum for contemporary, classic and emerging playwrights and, through our arts education program, an environment that introduces people of all ages to the transformative power of theater.
$2,088,243 spent$575,667 earned by the program95% of program spendingThe production of plays is complemented by an array of theater education programs, including student matinee performances, touring productions performing in the schools, teaching artist residencies in the schools, summer programs for youth and teens including classes and performances, educational symposia, audience discussions, and special series nights. Mtc's state of art facility provides rehearsal, meeting and performance space for other community service and arts groups.
$111,183 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,199,426.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.4M to $1.3M (−44%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 20% · 2022 43% · 2023 17% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of Marin Theatre Company’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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 held at 19 funders, grant income rose $402k → $448k.
12 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Theatre Company’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 Theatre Company has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
51% 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 Theatre Company.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 23% · 2019 27% · 2020 36% · 2021 20% · 2022 20% · 2023 30% — 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
47% of Marin Theatre Company's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
56% of Marin Theatre Company's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Theatre Company's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Marin Theatre Company receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$75k
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 Theatre 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 Theatre 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 Theatre Company?
- Marin Theatre Company (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,103,134 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($808,210). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Marin Theatre Company have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $5,103,134 in grants to Marin Theatre Company, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Marin Theatre Company?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $808,210 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Marin Theatre 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 51 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