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OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC
OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,533 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCALA MARION COUNTY INC ($313,954). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $396k
- Net assets
- $52k
What Ocala Civic Theatre Inc does
Mission
By offering quality theatrical experiences and performing arts eduction, ocala civic theatre helps cultivate future artists and audiences, fostering a lifelong connection to the arts. We work to ensure the arts remain a place where the community can connect, participate, and be inspired.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Founded in 1950, the civic is one of florida's oldest and largest community theaters, dedicated to uplifting, inspiring, and entertaining audiences through quality theatrical experiences and performing arts education. Each season, the civic produces three plays, three musicals, and three youth shows, totaling over 200 performances annually, and hosts more than 50 special events. Operating from a 362-seat facility at the appleton cultural campus, adjacent to the appleton museum of art, the civic employs 17 staff members and involves nearly 500 volunteers, with an annual operating budget of 1.2 million. During the 2024-2025 season, the civic welcomed a total of 36,852 attendees across 255 performances and events.
$1,521,696 spent$654,533 earned by the program95% of program spendingEducation & enrichment - the education and enrichment department offers qualified instruction in the performing arts and theater crafts. It also creates opportunities for our donors, patrons, fellow businesses, and organizations to tour our facilities, visit rehearsals, and observe classes. This helps deepen relationships and foster a greater understanding and appreciation of theater within our community. We support our seniors through our encores and ovations organizations, which help provide and administer scholarships for local theater, music, and art students, as well as second stage productions and various youth programs. Our academy classes serve over 150 learners each year, while additional outreach programs reach more than 1,300 participants in schools and public spaces. These classes conclude with performances that give students opportunities to apply their learning and gain experience.
$73,997 spent$96,479 earned by the program5% of program spendingCommunity development & partnership - we support other organizations by providing space at affordable prices and making our professional staff available to assist with events held in our space by others in our community. These include churches, schools, and other arts organizations. We also encourage and facilitate collaboration among our peer organizations. These projects involve education, outreach, and performance opportunities. By working together, we expand each other's support networks and raise awareness and appreciation for the arts as both cultural and educational assets, as well as key economic drivers for our community and region. The civic is a constant driver of cultural tourism in marion county. Ticketing and zip-code analysis show that the theatre consistently attracts locals as well as audiences from outside marion county, representing over 225 distinct zip codes. According to the arts & economic prosperity 6 calculator, the civic generates 3.3 million in economic activity each year, supports 54 local jobs, and brings in 81,836 in local tax revenue, showing a clear return on public investment.
All other activity of the ocala civic theatre is in support of our gueneral mission: to provide quality live theatre to uplift, inspire, and entertain our community through exceptional theatrical experiences and performing arts education.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,595,693.
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. 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 $1.5M to $1.1M (−29%).
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 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 35% · 2022 31% · 2023 15% · 2024 7% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $18k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 OCALA CIVIC 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.
How concentrated its funding is
OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 40% · 2022 91% · 2023 57% — 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
14% of OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
91% of OCALA CIVIC 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 $35k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $361k 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.
Against its field
OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $396k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OCALA CIVIC 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC?
- OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,533 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCALA MARION COUNTY INC ($313,954). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $395,533 in grants to OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCALA MARION COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $313,954 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 12 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