California · Nonprofit
MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE
MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,491 to it, the largest being WINTERCREEK FOUNDATION ($50,694). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $652k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $529k
What Murphys Creek Theatre does
Mission
Murphys Creek Theatre brings professional theatre to everyone in our community - breaking barriers with pay-what-you-can access, inspiring youth through education, uplifting bold new voices, and sharing transformative stories on stage.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Murphys Creek Theatre (mct) produces professional live theatre and theatre education programs for residents and visitors of calaveras county and the surrounding region. In 2024, mct produced four mainstage plays at black bart playhouse, serving 2,378 patrons 55% of whom attended through pay-what-you-can ticketing that ensures access regardless of ability to pay. Mct also presented summer on stage, its youth education program, and continued the quill to act new play festival, which selected three finalists for staged readings and produced its first world premiere featuring the festival's 2023 winner. All activities advanced the organization's mission of "professional theatre for everyone."
$194,144 spent$84,703 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $194,144.
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 2023 to 2024, from $118k to $560k (+375%).
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.
85% of MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $7k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
50% 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 MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 84% · 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
100% of MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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
MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE runs a healthier operating margin 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
Organizations like MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
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 MURPHYS CREEK 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE?
- MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,491 to it, the largest being WINTERCREEK FOUNDATION ($50,694). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $100,491 in grants to MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE?
- WINTERCREEK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,694 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE 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 4 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