Maine · Nonprofit
OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION
OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION (Maine) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,933,655 to it, the largest being THE PETERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION II INC ($2,000,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Ogunquit Playhouse Foundation does
Mission
Building upon a legacy of leadership in american theatre, the ogunquit playhouse produces world-class performances,cultivates new works for the stage, and preserves an iconic and historic organization for future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The ogunquit playhouse arts academy held all programs on the playhouse grounds and included tuition based courses for ages 5-18 and public tickets sales for our children's theatre shows held on the main stage. All classes, workshops and seminars were staffed by professional teaching artists both locally and from the broadway community. Our education director oversaw all programming. Summer 2024 had 10 weeks of programming with distinct and unique one, two-, and three-week programs. Our popular musical theatre performance camps included students aged 7-18 and included the musicals "seussical tya", and "disney's camp rock". These two shows were performed on our main stage in the playhouse. These performances were advertised and sold to the public through our box office. Over 3,040 people attended these performances. A total of 6 performances were presented (three of each title), on saturday, sunday, and tuesday mornings. Students aged 5-7 performed with our rising stars program which included the musicals "a barnyard moosical", and "how does your garden groove". Our 8-11 year olds performed with our center stage program, which presented the musical "disney's the movies, the music".…
$345,780 spent$168,040 earned by the program3% of program spendingIn 2024, the ogunquit playhouse had over 100,000 visitors to the playhouse. The playhouse presented 5 shows. The season began with waitress from may 9 june 8; crazy for you from june 13 july 13; a little night music from july 18 august 17; little shop of horrors from august 22-september 21; and the world premiere of my best friend's wedding from september 26-october 27.
$7,719,042 spent$9,336,570 earned by the program57% of program spendingThe playhouse rents scenery, props, wigs, costumes and equipment to non-profit regional theatres throughout the country and occasionally to schools. In 2024, these items were rented to twelve theatres and one university.
$237,893 spent$243,282 earned by the program2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$5,260,825 spent39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,563,540.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $16M (+16%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 42% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $60k → $1.1M.
15 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 funders by total. 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
OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 84% · 2019 67% · 2020 32% · 2021 36% · 2022 45% · 2023 52% — 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
42% of OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION: 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 OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION?
- OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION (Maine) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,933,655 to it, the largest being THE PETERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION II INC ($2,000,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $7,933,655 in grants to OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION?
- THE PETERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION II INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 62 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