Nebraska · Nonprofit
OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE
OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE (Nebraska) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,185,729 to it, the largest being THE HAWKS FOUNDATION ($1,685,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Omaha Community Playhouse does
Mission
The Omaha Community Playhouse is a performing arts organization that enhances quality of life through live theatre, community involvement, and arts education. We are dedicated to enriching the lives of audiences and participants through entertainment, thought-provoking stories and first-hand involvement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Omaha Community Playhouse (ocp) has proudly provided the greater omaha community with high-quality educational and entertainment opportunities since 1924. The largest community theater in the nation in terms of facility size, number of season productions, subscriber base and staff (among other factors), ocp annually serves more than 50,000 people. Ocp's season includes productions of 10 shows, as well as the presentation of other special events. Productions include musicals, comedies, and dramas and provide the opportunity for entertainment, education, and volunteerism. Ocp's audience base includes primarily patrons from nebraska and iowa and many other states from across the country.
$3,055,393 spent$2,095,993 earned by the program92% of program spendingOcp's education and outreach efforts, through the shirlee & henry fonda theatre academy, include a variety of classes and workshops onsite at ocp and at multiple schools throughout the city; they are available on-demand for schools, organizations, and other nonprofits. Ocp believes in providing affordable educational and outreach opportunities for students of all ages.
$267,268 spent$79,163 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,322,661.
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 $9.7M to $13M (+35%).
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 6% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 29% · 2022 41% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $148k → $813k.
5 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Omaha Community Playhouse Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE raised.
From the IRS filings of OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 41% · 2019 21% · 2020 15% · 2021 19% · 2022 13% · 2023 58% — 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
52% of OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
87% of OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $243k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 29 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE 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 OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Omaha Community Playhouse Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: 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 OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE?
- OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE (Nebraska) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,185,729 to it, the largest being THE HAWKS FOUNDATION ($1,685,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $6,185,729 in grants to OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE?
- THE HAWKS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,685,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 60 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