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Parson's Nose Productions

Parson's Nose Productions (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $498,976 to it, the largest being THE DOROTHY L JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($160,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$238k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$499k
Net assets
$219k
7/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Parson's Nose Productions does

Mission

The mission of Parson's Nose Productions is to introduce classic theater to audiences of all ages

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During the period covered, Parson's Nose Theater offered the following events:A total of 44 live public events were held with a total audience size of 1,800Produced Radio Theater podcasts with a combined total of 4,835 listners

    $258,008 spent$31,912 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $258,008.

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 ($249k) Expenses 100 ($190k) Net assets 100 ($194k)2018 Revenue 73 ($181k) Expenses 131 ($250k) Net assets 67 ($130k)2019 Revenue 88 ($219k) Expenses 134 ($256k) Net assets 49 ($96k)2020 Revenue 78 ($196k) Expenses 106 ($201k) Net assets 56 ($108k)2021 Revenue 88 ($219k) Expenses 81 ($155k) Net assets 135 ($262k)2022 Revenue 73 ($181k) Expenses 94 ($179k) Net assets 90 ($174k)2023 Revenue 132 ($329k) Expenses 138 ($262k) Net assets 124 ($241k)2024 Revenue 90 ($225k) Expenses 119 ($227k) Net assets 124 ($239k)2025 Revenue 96 ($238k) Expenses 136 ($258k) Net assets 113 ($219k)
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Revenue (96)Expenses (136)Net assets (113)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 2019 to 2020, from $99k to $203k (+105%).

$198k
$134k
$99k
$203k
$268k
$270k
$339k
$338k
$317k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 8% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 59% · 2022 12% · 2023 37% · 2024 16% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of Parson's Nose Productions’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$59k
’17
−$69k
’18
−$37k
’19
−$6k
’20
$64k
’21
$2k
’22
$67k
’23
−$1k
’24
−$20k
’25
15
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.

Board chair

Barry Gordon

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed109991111988
Joined·+0+0+0+3+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·10011220
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $110k → $91k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Parson's Nose Productions’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

Parson's Nose Productions leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

59% 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 Parson's Nose Productions.

32%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 69% · 2019 37% · 2020 57% · 2021 72% · 2022 96% · 2023 55% — 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.

Where its funders are

57% of Parson's Nose Productions's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $217k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $282k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Parson's Nose Productions holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve14.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
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

CA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Parson's Nose Productions?
Parson's Nose Productions (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $498,976 to it, the largest being THE DOROTHY L JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($160,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Parson's Nose Productions have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $498,976 in grants to Parson's Nose Productions, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Parson's Nose Productions?
THE DOROTHY L JOHNSTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Parson's Nose Productions find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 7 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