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MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE

MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE (Virginia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,671 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING WESTERN VIRGINIA ($89,300). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.3M
Revenue FY2024
27
Funders on record
$450k
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
19/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($896k) Expenses 100 ($907k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 108 ($967k) Expenses 112 ($1.0M) Net assets 96 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 117 ($1.0M) Expenses 117 ($1.1M) Net assets 95 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 71 ($634k) Expenses 68 ($621k) Net assets 96 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 168 ($1.5M) Expenses 108 ($982k) Net assets 140 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 105 ($943k) Expenses 137 ($1.2M) Net assets 114 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 152 ($1.4M) Expenses 157 ($1.4M) Net assets 109 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 144 ($1.3M) Expenses 165 ($1.5M) Net assets 91 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (165)Net assets (91)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 29% · 2021 37% · 2022 14% · 2023 4% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

32% of MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
17
$49k
18
$14k
19
$14k
20
$521k
21
$304k
22
$59k
23
$210k
24
3.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $25k → $67k.

4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)22% 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 MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN 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

MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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

38% 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 MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE.

20%
largest funder
44%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 63% · 2019 27% · 2020 30% · 2021 55% · 2022 36% · 2023 37%diversifying over time.

“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

37% of MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 10 states in all.

VT
IL
NY
NV
CT
KY
VA
NC
SC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 27 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN 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 Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 8%Fundraising 10%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN 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.

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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 MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE?
MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE (Virginia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,671 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING WESTERN VIRGINIA ($89,300). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $449,671 in grants to MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING WESTERN VIRGINIA is the largest funder on record, with $89,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27funders 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