California · Nonprofit
PATIO PLAYHOUSE
PATIO PLAYHOUSE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,484 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $148k
What Patio Playhouse does
Mission
Patio Playhouse is a non-profit community service organization dedicated to providing entertainment for the Southern California community, to creating opportunities for people of talent and interest who wish to participate and/or perform and to providing training for individuals who wish to learn about theater art.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
2024/25 was Patio's 58th season. Patio produced 9 shows this season: Princess Whatshername, Hello Dolly, Getting Sara Married, Every Christmas Story Ever Told, Anne of Green Gables, Tick Tick Boom, Teechers, Women Playing Hamlet and Winnie the Pooh.
$143,782 spent97% of program spendingPatio hosts various events thoughout the year that are not partr of the season productions: Holiday Hullabaloo, Annual Awards Banquet, Off the Cuff Improv, Acting Academy, Talent Bash, miscellaneous staged readings and various community activities at local schools, nursing homes and other community organizations.
$2,121 spent1% of program spending"The Patio Playhouse Scholarship" provides financial assistance to students who have demonstrated a passion for theater, whether on stage, behind the scenes, or in related fields such as theater education, technical production, costuming and more. Two $1000 scholarships were awarded this year.
$2,000 spentof which $2,000 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $147,903.
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 2018 to 2019, from $116k to $168k (+45%).
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: 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of PATIO PLAYHOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $15k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 PATIO PLAYHOUSE’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
PATIO PLAYHOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 PATIO PLAYHOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
64% of PATIO PLAYHOUSE'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PATIO PLAYHOUSE receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PATIO 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PATIO 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 PATIO PLAYHOUSE?
- PATIO PLAYHOUSE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,484 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PATIO PLAYHOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $47,484 in grants to PATIO PLAYHOUSE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATIO PLAYHOUSE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATIO PLAYHOUSE 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 4 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