Tennessee · Nonprofit
NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC
NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,374,529 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($4,098,898). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $183k
What Nashville Repertory Theatre Inc does
Mission
Nashville repertory theatre exists to serve through creating "ah-ha!" moments that inspire empathy, prod intellectual and emotional engagement, and expand the creative capacity of audience and artists though the dynamic connection unique to live theatre.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Theatre production (fully mounted professional productions): includes expenses that are directly identifiable with a particular production. We had a total attendance of 22,000 to our shows and educational programs during the year.
$2,132,915 spent$1,088,875 earned by the program97% of program spendingIngram new works project and engagement programs: the new play development program supports the creation of four new american plays each year with a residency, development workshops, and a play reading festival. The repaloud program produces staged reading and musicals in concerts in community location. The engagement programs offers audiences auxiliary programs to each mainstage show.
$28,552 spent1% of program spendingProfessional training & education: internships provides a unique opportunity for interns to gain practical experience and valuable skills from the largest professional theatre in tennessee and allows staff the benefit of working with enthusiastic talented young theatre artists. Workshops arts enrichment and professional training workshops offered to individuals and schools in the community throughout the season. Ten workshops were offered this season. Classroom indepth - school/college classes may see a production at discount and a professional teaching artist visits their class either before for preparation or after for discussion.
$35,044 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,196,511.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $2.0M to $942k (−53%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 65% · 2019 6% · 2020 17% · 2021 52% · 2022 66% · 2023 27% · 2024 15% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $498k → $859k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 90% · 2019 86% · 2020 84% · 2021 83% · 2022 37% · 2023 76% — 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
41% of NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
79% of NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC's revenue grew 45% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC?
- NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,374,529 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($4,098,898). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $5,374,529 in grants to NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,098,898 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing