Oklahoma · Nonprofit
NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS
NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,022 to it, the largest being NORMAN ARTS COUNCIL ($100,022). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $46k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $115k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Namron Players Theatre Incorporated Dba Oklahoma Storyworks does
Mission
Namron Players Theatre dba Oklahoma StoryWorks provides our community with mature modern theatre, utilizing the talents of playwrights, actors, and theatre artists from within Norman and from around the state of Oklahoma. OKSW is an arts organization that is community-grounded, collaborative, exploratory, off-beat and concerned with the Norman community and its place in the larger world. We embrace the diverse artistic culture emerging from our city and wish to encourage this renaissance with risk-taking theatre productions that provide intellectual challenges for our audiences and artists collectively. We believe theatre at its best is a shared visceral experience with a definite impact; and that the best community theatre challenges the community it serves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Oklahoma StoryWorks produced two original plays: "Madsy: Her Book" by Betsy Ballard and ""The Day the Music Died" by Robert Con Davis-Undiano. This included working with the playwrights in developing their scripts over several months, as well as casting and directing the project. "Madsy: Her Book" premiered in the Fall of 2024. "The Day the Music Died" premiered in January of 2025. Workshops were also developed and offered in playwriting and improvisation.
$23,827 spentof which $30,537 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $23,827.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $16k to $28k (+71%).
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.
100% of NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sheryl Martin
Artist Director/Executive Director
Board chair
Melanie Wildman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $21k.
From the IRS filings of NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS’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
NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
87% 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 NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 88% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS: 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 NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS?
- NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,022 to it, the largest being NORMAN ARTS COUNCIL ($100,022). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $115,022 in grants to NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS?
- NORMAN ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $100,022 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAMRON PLAYERS THEATRE INCORPORATED DBA OKLAHOMA STORYWORKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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