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MONTGOMERY THEATER INC

MONTGOMERY THEATER INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $516,383 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($275,350). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$560k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$516k
Net assets
$870k
12/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Montgomery Theater Inc does

Mission

An intimate professional theater dedicated to enriching our region by producing modern plays, musicals, and american classics; offering educational programs for local youth; and ensuring equitable access to the performing arts.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promoted public engagement in live theater through the production of professional-level productions, family-friendly productions incorporating children and adults. Approximately 10,000 individuals served per year.

    $498,878 spent$287,190 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $498,878.

02The 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 ($428k) Expenses 100 ($480k) Net assets 100 ($714k)2018 Revenue 147 ($629k) Expenses 97 ($464k) Net assets 123 ($878k)2019 Revenue 104 ($444k) Expenses 99 ($475k) Net assets 119 ($848k)2020 Revenue 64 ($273k) Expenses 68 ($325k) Net assets 112 ($800k)2021 Revenue 114 ($487k) Expenses 52 ($250k) Net assets 145 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 93 ($396k) Expenses 109 ($521k) Net assets 127 ($904k)2023 Revenue 137 ($588k) Expenses 119 ($570k) Net assets 129 ($923k)2024 Revenue 131 ($560k) Expenses 128 ($613k) Net assets 122 ($870k)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (128)Net assets (122)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $832k to $1.2M (+40%).

$820k
$995k
$956k
$832k
$1.2M
$997k
$1.0M
$992k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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: 2020 15% · 2021 3% · 2022 11% · 2023 4% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

47% of MONTGOMERY THEATER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$52k
’17
$164k
’18
−$31k
’19
−$52k
’20
$237k
’21
−$125k
’22
$18k
’23
−$54k
’24
8.0
months of
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

Ron Price

Board chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1416141514141418
Joined·+3+2+4+3+0+4+5
No longer listed·1434041
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $39k → $61k.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 MONTGOMERY THEATER INC’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

MONTGOMERY THEATER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

53%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 52% · 2019 51% · 2020 66% · 2021 54% · 2022 68% · 2023 62% — 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 MONTGOMERY THEATER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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

97% of MONTGOMERY THEATER INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
OH
PA
CA

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

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MONTGOMERY THEATER INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like MONTGOMERY THEATER INC

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 Pennsylvania

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 10%Fundraising 9%

Governance

14
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

70%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds MONTGOMERY THEATER INC?
MONTGOMERY THEATER INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $516,383 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($275,350). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MONTGOMERY THEATER INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $516,383 in grants to MONTGOMERY THEATER INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MONTGOMERY THEATER INC?
THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $275,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MONTGOMERY THEATER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 15 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