California · Nonprofit
MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE INC
MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $297 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($297). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $187k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $297
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Masquers Playhouse Inc does
Mission
The Masquers Playhouse Inc. Is a volunteer, non-profit, community theatre that produces and stages affordable plays and other live theatrical events for the entertainment and cultural enhancement of the greater bay area. It provides a creative outlet for amateur theatre people, exercises sound financial management, encourages audience participation and involvement, and seeks to foster a strong community identity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The masquers playhouse is a community theatre in point richmond, ca on the eastshore of the san francisco bay. As a non-profit corporation, the masquers have been producing plays and musicals of the highest caliber for 70 years. Every year, the masquers have a main season of five productions, plays and musicals. The productions run for about four weeks, with performances on thursday, friday, and saturday evenings and sunday matinees.
$94,679 spent$99,864 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe masquers also have several education and development programs including "envision" which allows new directors to stage plays for 1-2 weekends, "stage one" summer program for children to learn the craft of making theatre, and "east side stories" program that trains people to write and perform their own personal story.
$33 spent$1,169 earned by the program0% of program spendingN/a
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $94,712.
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 $714k to $1.0M (+42%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 4% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $69 → $-2917.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MASQUERS 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $297 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE 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 MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE INC?
- MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $297 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($297). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $297 in grants to MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $297 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASQUERS PLAYHOUSE INC 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 2 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