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Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc

Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $489,746 to it, the largest being The Essex Avenue Foundation ($225,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.2M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$490k
Net assets
$1.0M
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc does

Mission

To provide quality professional theatre for the residents of and visitors to Ocean County, NJ, while also providing teaching and training in theatre arts

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Theater productions and education

    $2,645,344 spent$2,631,164 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,645,344.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($68k)2018 Revenue 108 ($2.0M) Expenses 118 ($1.9M) Net assets 330 ($226k)2019 Revenue 115 ($2.1M) Expenses 135 ($2.2M) Net assets 306 ($210k)2020 Revenue 52 ($965k) Expenses 78 ($1.2M) Net assets -103 ($-70333)2021 Revenue 134 ($2.5M) Expenses 101 ($1.6M) Net assets 1019 ($698k)2022 Revenue 157 ($2.9M) Expenses 174 ($2.8M) Net assets 1232 ($844k)2023 Revenue 143 ($2.6M) Expenses 161 ($2.6M) Net assets 1356 ($929k)2024 Revenue 148 ($2.7M) Expenses 172 ($2.7M) Net assets 1356 ($929k)2025 Revenue 171 ($3.2M) Expenses 193 ($3.1M) Net assets 1501 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (193)Net assets (1501)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $455k to $1.5M (+237%).

$245k
$408k
$399k
$455k
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2019 0% · 2020 4% · 2021 39% · 2022 15% · 2023 12% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$260k
’17
$119k
’18
−$16k
’19
−$280k
’20
$870k
’21
$146k
’22
$84k
’23
$21
’24
$99k
’25
1.8
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.

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Listed448666665
Joined·+0+4+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00200001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $2k → $102k.

8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Ocean Professional Theatre Company 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

Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

36% 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 Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc.

46%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 43% · 2022 51% · 2023 74% — 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

38% of Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 3 states in all.

NY
NJ
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 13%Fundraising 1%

Governance

2
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc?
Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $489,746 to it, the largest being The Essex Avenue Foundation ($225,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $489,746 in grants to Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc?
The Essex Avenue Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Ocean Professional Theatre Company Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 16 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