Washington · Nonprofit
NOVELTEASE THEATRE
NOVELTEASE THEATRE (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,082 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Noveltease Theatre does
Mission
Noveltease Theatre pays homage to literary burlesque of the late 19th century by combining theatrical adaptations of classic texts with contemporary striptease. Our intention is not to mock, but to productively muddle the "highbrow" art of literature with the "lowbrow" art of burlesque through embodied storytelling. Noveltease Theatre's mission is to create community through storytelling by reviving the historical artform of literary burlesque. We stage unique adaptations of classic works of theatre and literature in order to reclaim and rework the canon that enlivens and transforms classic works for contemporary audiences. We envision a world that celebrates the beauty of the written word and the grace of bodies in motion. Through fanciful adaptations of classic literature that infuse text with dance, we hope to create a space in which everyone can see themselves represented in classic literature
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Noveltease Theatre's mission is to create community through storytelling by reviving the historical artform of literary burlesque. We stage unique adaptations of classic works of theatre and literature in order to reclaim and rework the canon from a sex-positive, queer, feminist, and anti-racist standpoint that enlivens and transforms classic works for contemporary audiences. Our work revives the artform of literary burlesque, blending it with contemporary burlesque and theatrical techniques, through our artistic season of two mainstage theatrical productions created and performed by our core artistic company, as well as a mix of 3-4 cabaret productions and educational offerings including workshops and community oriented peer review events. Our mainstage productions are adaptations of literature that use burlesque and dance as part of the storytelling methodology. Through this method - along with casting practices that deliberately racebend and genderbend characters - we reclaim and rework the canon from a sex-positive, queer, feminist, and anti-racist standpoint that enlivens and transforms classic works for contemporary audiences. Guided by the belief that a creative community…
$64,310 spentof which $43,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,310.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $26k to $73k (+180%).
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.
76% of NOVELTEASE THEATRE’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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
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 NOVELTEASE THEATRE’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
NOVELTEASE THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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
100% 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 NOVELTEASE THEATRE.
“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 NOVELTEASE THEATRE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
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
NOVELTEASE THEATRE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NOVELTEASE THEATRE
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NOVELTEASE THEATRE: 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 NOVELTEASE THEATRE?
- NOVELTEASE THEATRE (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,082 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NOVELTEASE THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $59,082 in grants to NOVELTEASE THEATRE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOVELTEASE THEATRE?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOVELTEASE THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2024–2025), 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