Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC
MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,074,801 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE ($1,125,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $694k
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc does
Mission
Martha's vineyard playhouse is a professional, non-profit working theater dedicated to inspiring, enriching and entertaining our diverse island community. We believe that theater has the power to transform lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mv playhouse operates year-round, presenting a wide selection of contemporary and classic plays; nurturing and developing new plays through staged readings, professional workshops and world premieres; and producing and presenting plays, musical revues, poetry cafes, art exhibits, movies and much more on our intimate patricia neal stage and in our marilyn meyerhoff lobby, both located in our historic theater in downtown vineyard haven.
$528,997 spent$214,117 earned by the program96% of program spendingMartha's vineyard playhouse is committed to working with children; educating and entertaining them. During the summer, the fabulists: theater for children performs every week for families and our summer stars children's theater camp is a small, friendly camp focusing on creating theater and exploring artistic expression through play-making, performance, music, movement, improvisation and scenic design. Year-round and summer visitors become friends and learn to work together. Winter stars is mv playhouse's after-school theater program, open to all island children in grades 4 to 9, with or without theater experience.
$23,561 spent$45,975 earned by the program4% of program spendingThe historic martha's vineyard playhouse was built in 1833. A complete renovation, restoration, and expansion of the historic theater building (2011 - 2014) took place and the playhouse entered its new chapter as the "gateway" to the william street historic district and the lead partner of the vineyard haven harbor cultural district.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $552,558.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $2.9M (+31%).
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% · 2019 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Susan Dickler
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $55k → $788k.
7 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC’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
MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 27% · 2019 24% · 2020 22% · 2021 23% · 2022 16% · 2023 76% — 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 MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% 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
73% of MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC'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 $570k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $218k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$218k
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.
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In Massachusetts
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
41%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC?
- MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,074,801 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE ($1,125,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,074,801 in grants to MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC?
- ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE is the largest funder on record, with $1,125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing