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PALACE THEATRE TRUST

PALACE THEATRE TRUST (New Hampshire) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,022,790 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($272,860). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.4M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$15M
20/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Palace Theatre Trust does

Mission

To enrich the region's cultural life and serve as a community resource through its stewardship of the historic palace theatre. It does so by providing a broad range of live, high quality, professional and community performances, as well as educational opportunities for performers and audiences of all ages.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Enriching the region's cultural life and offering a diverse selection of extremely high quality live performances and educational opportunities for patrons, artists, children and people of all ages defines the palace theatre. From in-house produced live professional musical theatre, top name presenting entertainment, other non-profit fundraising events and rentals for many community events are all part of what defines the palace theatre. Approximately 120,000 patrons attended with over 252 performances and events. Youth performing arts programs are an integral part of the palace theatre/forever emma studios youth initiatives with over 19,000 children experiencing theatrical productions through participation in vacation camps, specialized acting companies and vocal, dancing or acting classes. Additionally, more than 900 youth, grades 2-12 performed in a palace production.

    $5,038,880 spent$5,457,698 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,038,880.

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 ($4.4M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 199 ($8.7M) Expenses 116 ($4.9M) Net assets 195 ($7.9M)2019 Revenue 134 ($5.9M) Expenses 124 ($5.2M) Net assets 214 ($8.7M)2020 Revenue 105 ($4.6M) Expenses 113 ($4.7M) Net assets 209 ($8.5M)2021 Revenue 82 ($3.6M) Expenses 81 ($3.4M) Net assets 245 ($10.0M)2022 Revenue 202 ($8.8M) Expenses 143 ($6.0M) Net assets 294 ($12M)2023 Revenue 157 ($6.9M) Expenses 155 ($6.5M) Net assets 318 ($13M)2024 Revenue 158 ($6.9M) Expenses 170 ($7.1M) Net assets 336 ($14M)2025 Revenue 215 ($9.4M) Expenses 186 ($7.7M) Net assets 371 ($15M)
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Revenue (215)Expenses (186)Net assets (371)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 2017 to 2018, from $4.9M to $9.3M (+89%).

$4.9M
$9.3M
$11M
$12M
$14M
$15M
$17M
$20M
$20M
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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: 2017 0% · 2018 2% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 59% · 2022 0% · 2023 9% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

23% of PALACE THEATRE TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 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.

$188k
’17
$3.8M
’18
$691k
’19
−$147k
’20
$205k
’21
$2.8M
’22
$389k
’23
−$187k
’24
$1.6M
’25
6.9
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.

Chief executive

Peter Ramsey

CEO

Board chair

Atty David Eby

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+3+1+4+8+0+3+4
No longer listed·00335028
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $159k → $138k.

4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 PALACE THEATRE TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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

PALACE THEATRE TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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

57% 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 PALACE THEATRE TRUST.

27%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 50% · 2019 61% · 2020 34% · 2021 41% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% — 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

57% of PALACE THEATRE TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

94% of PALACE THEATRE TRUST's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.

NH
NY
MA
RI
NC
TX

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

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New Hampshire out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $350k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

PALACE THEATRE TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve6.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like PALACE THEATRE TRUST

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 31%Fundraising 4%

Governance

22
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NH

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PALACE THEATRE TRUST: 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 PALACE THEATRE TRUST?
PALACE THEATRE TRUST (New Hampshire) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,022,790 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($272,860). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PALACE THEATRE TRUST have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,022,790 in grants to PALACE THEATRE TRUST, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PALACE THEATRE TRUST?
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $272,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PALACE THEATRE TRUST find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 26 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