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MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR

MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,612 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ($98,765). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$232k
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$118k
Grants received
$80k
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%

Against its field

MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $118k to it.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve4.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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 ($246k) Expenses 100 ($270k) Net assets 100 ($55k)2018 Revenue 114 ($281k) Expenses 103 ($277k) Net assets 107 ($59k)2019 Revenue 105 ($258k) Expenses 98 ($266k) Net assets 94 ($52k)2020 Revenue 70 ($173k) Expenses 72 ($194k) Net assets 56 ($31k)2021 Revenue 89 ($220k) Expenses 58 ($157k) Net assets 166 ($92k)2022 Revenue 76 ($186k) Expenses 65 ($177k) Net assets 185 ($102k)2023 Revenue 78 ($193k) Expenses 83 ($223k) Net assets 130 ($72k)2024 Revenue 93 ($228k) Expenses 82 ($221k) Net assets 143 ($79k)2025 Revenue 94 ($232k) Expenses 85 ($231k) Net assets 146 ($80k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (94)Expenses (85)Net assets (146)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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 2% · 2019 6% · 2020 26% · 2021 43% · 2022 16% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

9% of MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$24k
’17
$4k
’18
−$8k
’19
−$21k
’20
$63k
’21
$10k
’22
−$30k
’23
$7k
’24
$1k
’25
4.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $11k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
3
2
3
2
1
1

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR’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

MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR.

84%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 99% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

91% of MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

VA
DC

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

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.

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 MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR

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 Virginia

City of Fairfax Theater Company80%Clarksville Community Players Inc80%Endstation Theatre Company80%Little Theatre of Virginia Beach79%The Paramount Theater of Charlottesville Inc78%Reston Community Players Inc77%Academy Center of the Arts Inc77%Cadence Theatre Company Inc77%

Nationally

East Valley Childrens Theatre82%Mtvarts Inc82%City of Fairfax Theater Company80%Very Merry Theatre80%Metro Theater Company80%Clarksville Community Players Inc80%Endstation Theatre Company80%Greenville Theatre79%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR: 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 MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR?
MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,612 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ($98,765). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $117,612 in grants to MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR?
ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $98,765 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S THEATR 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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