Michigan · Nonprofit
NICELY THEATRE GROUP
NICELY THEATRE GROUP (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $583k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500k
- Net assets
- $360k
What Nicely Theatre Group does
Mission
To produce and perform live theatre in detroit, michigan and its suburbs. This includes securing rights to shows, securing venues, handling auditions/casting, set design, lighting design, music and choreography, costuming, marketing, tickets sales, rehearsal, performances and everything else involved with producing and performing live theatre. The shows will be reasonably priced and marketed to the public at large. We will emphasize racial diversity in casting. The goal is to bring affordable, entertaining theatre to detroit and its suburbs, and to give onstage and offstage talent the opportunity to earn income from their craft.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The objective is to provide artistic entertainment to the public. Another objective was to provide work for those in the theatre industry, employing a diverse group of people. Performances which have already taken place have attracted 1,000 to 1,500 "households", which translates to 4,000 to 5,000 actual viewers. Employment and/or contract work provided to over 125 different actors, writers, directors and backstage crew.
$351,475 spent$121,940 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $351,475.
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 2024 to 2025, from $159k to $361k (+128%).
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.
79% of NICELY THEATRE GROUP’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. 3 of the last 6 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 NICELY THEATRE GROUP’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
100% of NICELY THEATRE GROUP'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $500k 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
NICELY THEATRE GROUP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NICELY THEATRE GROUP
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NICELY THEATRE GROUP: 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 NICELY THEATRE GROUP?
- NICELY THEATRE GROUP (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NICELY THEATRE GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500,000 in grants to NICELY THEATRE GROUP.
- Who is the largest funder of NICELY THEATRE GROUP?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NICELY THEATRE GROUP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing