Nebraska · Nonprofit
OMAHA THEATER COMPANY
OMAHA THEATER COMPANY (Nebraska) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,780,224 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($8,008,747). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Omaha Theater Company does
Mission
To inspire young people and their families to discover the magic of theater, find their voices, and enrich their communities. Theater is utilized as a tool in the educational and social development of young people to provide formal education in the performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Production - the theater strives to introduce young people to a mix of both traditional favorites and ground-breaking original productions. Productions are selected to appeal to a wide range of tastes, ages, and abilities. The 24-25 season included 8 mainstage productions as well as 1 production targeted towards very young audiences with exceptionalities. Production attendance for all 9 shows totaled approximately 85,000.
$2,177,196 spent$514,130 earned by the program45% of program spendingEducation - the Omaha Theater Company was one of the first in omaha to offer classes in the theater arts, and today, stands as a leading program and training ground for young artists interested in pursuing a career in theater. The education program includes three main areas. Field trips, tours and workshops - elementary school students of all ages attend shows or workshops or have touring shows and workshops presented a their schools. The theater works with over 70 area schools and serves more than 35,000 students every year. Drama education - drama classes promote creativity and provide students with an environment to explore their talent and imagination. In drama classes, young people learn how to use their bodies to tell as story, use their voice, and how to stretch their imagination. Classes include acting, directing, playwriting, improv, stagecraft, puppetry, filmmaking, and more. Broadway - broadway at the rose is a complete musical theater, voice, acting and dance training program for students who want to perform. In broadway classes, young people hone their skills and prepare to take the stage at school, in community productions, and even on the rose mainstage.
$2,329,275 spent$1,243,360 earned by the program48% of program spendingOutreach - community connections, the Omaha Theater Company's outreach program, makes theater activities available to omaha area children and families who have not traditionally had access to the theater arts.
$304,850 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,811,321.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $6.6M to $9.4M (+43%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2021 29% · 2022 12% · 2023 5% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of OMAHA THEATER COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $770k → $1.1M.
8 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $4.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money OMAHA THEATER COMPANY raised.
From the IRS filings of OMAHA THEATER COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 THEATER COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 54% · 2019 36% · 2020 77% · 2021 50% · 2022 81% · 2023 45% — 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
54% of OMAHA THEATER COMPANY'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
93% of OMAHA THEATER COMPANY's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $911k 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.
Against its field
OMAHA THEATER COMPANY's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OMAHA THEATER COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $145k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$145k
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 THEATER COMPANY
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
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
- Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OMAHA THEATER COMPANY: 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 THEATER COMPANY?
- OMAHA THEATER COMPANY (Nebraska) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,780,224 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($8,008,747). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OMAHA THEATER COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $12,780,224 in grants to OMAHA THEATER COMPANY, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OMAHA THEATER COMPANY?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,008,747 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OMAHA THEATER COMPANY 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 38 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