Nebraska · Nonprofit
NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC
NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $490,384 to it, the largest being Arts Midwest Incorporated ($125,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $490k
- Net assets
- $0
What Nebraska Shakespeare Festival Inc does
Mission
To create entertaining, challenging productions as well as immersive educational experiences that connect our diverse community to shakespeare's exploration of what it means to be human. On stage, in the classroom, and through collaborative partnerships, we create, engage, and inspire.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Shakespeare on the green- each summer season runs for about three weeks and generally includes two plays- typically one tragedy and one comedy. Through this cultural experience, parents can introduce their children to the power and beauty of classical theatre, produced by a professional company of artists from across the country. People who ordinarily either would not or could not attend a shakespeare play are able to discover the unique and life-affirming qualities that live theater provides. In addition to the main performance are educational preshow seminars and a green show entertainment featuring a juggler and local musicians, and a "shakespeare" interactive educational tent utilizing donated materials and manned by volunteers with educational expertise.
$0 spentThe touring theater company has been able to provide live performances of shakespeare's works to many rural communities and schools where access to educational performing arts is limited. The tour includes public and community performances in addition to private performances for middle and high school students.
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $291k to $2k (−99%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 13% · 2019 17% · 2020 16% · 2021 12% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Adrian Blake
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $86k → $21.
3 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 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
NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
55% 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 NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2020 30% · 2021 38% · 2022 30% · 2023 100% — 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
39% of NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
74% of NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Organizations like NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC?
- NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $490,384 to it, the largest being Arts Midwest Incorporated ($125,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $490,384 in grants to NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC?
- Arts Midwest Incorporated is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 22 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