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NIAGARA FALLS LITTLE THEATRE INC

NIAGARA FALLS LITTLE THEATRE INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$187k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$500
Net assets
$123k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Niagara Falls Little Theatre Inc does

Mission

Entertain, educate, and enrich the community through various theatre productions including 42nd street, the man who came to dinner, harvey, spamalot and brigadoon.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The theatre has had up to 2000 attend each production including 9 to 5, blithe spirit, arsenic and old lace, the bakers wife and young frankenstein. Also have approx 160 members.

    $123,534 spent$148,848 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $123,534.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($154k) Expenses 100 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($94k)2018 Revenue 133 ($206k) Expenses 134 ($187k) Net assets 120 ($112k)2019 Revenue 116 ($180k) Expenses 136 ($189k) Net assets 110 ($103k)2020 Revenue 61 ($94k) Expenses 108 ($151k) Net assets 52 ($49k)2021 Revenue 31 ($48k) Expenses 37 ($52k) Net assets 48 ($45k)2022 Revenue 78 ($120k) Expenses 86 ($119k) Net assets 49 ($46k)2023 Revenue 83 ($128k) Expenses 102 ($142k) Net assets 54 ($51k)2024 Revenue 137 ($212k) Expenses 111 ($155k) Net assets 121 ($113k)2025 Revenue 121 ($187k) Expenses 131 ($183k) Net assets 131 ($123k)
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Revenue (121)Expenses (131)Net assets (131)

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 $69k to $133k (+92%).

$101k
$127k
$114k
$59k
$59k
$60k
$69k
$133k
$137k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Surplus & reserves

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

$15k
’17
$18k
’18
−$9k
’19
−$57k
’20
−$4k
’21
$989
’22
−$13k
’23
$57k
’24
$3k
’25
8.9
months of
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

Francis Newton

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of NIAGARA FALLS LITTLE THEATRE 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.

Where its funders are

NIAGARA FALLS LITTLE THEATRE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.

NC

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.

04Its place in the field

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 36%Fundraising 2%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NIAGARA FALLS LITTLE THEATRE INC: 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 NIAGARA FALLS LITTLE THEATRE INC?
NIAGARA FALLS LITTLE THEATRE INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NIAGARA FALLS LITTLE THEATRE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to NIAGARA FALLS LITTLE THEATRE INC.
Who is the largest funder of NIAGARA FALLS LITTLE THEATRE INC?
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NIAGARA FALLS LITTLE THEATRE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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