Wisconsin · Nonprofit
PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,764,197 to it, the largest being DWIGHT AND LINDA DAVIS FOUNDATION ($308,700). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Peninsula Players Theatre Foundation Inc does
Mission
Peninsula players theatre is committed to preserving america's oldest professional resident summer theatre in its unique setting on sixteen forested acres along the shores of green bay. The theater's mission is to support, without reservation, the most exciting theater company possible; to preserve the theatre in a garden's natural beauty; to provide artists the freedom, tools, and facilities they require to entertain, uplift, and inform our audiences; to foster future generations of theater professionals through the internship program; and to maintain fiscal policies that insure the future security of the theater.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides high quality theatrical productions for 18 weeks each season between june and october. There are six performances per week for a total of 104 performances a year.
$2,038,081 spent$1,756,493 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,038,081.
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 2021 to 2022, from $10M to $13M (+25%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2020 15% · 2021 57% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 11% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Tom Birmingham
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $33k → $692k.
10 of 32 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 PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
48% 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 PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 58% · 2019 63% · 2020 36% · 2021 43% · 2022 51% · 2023 44% — 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
45% of PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
83% of PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $595k 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
PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: 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 PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC?
- PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,764,197 to it, the largest being DWIGHT AND LINDA DAVIS FOUNDATION ($308,700). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,764,197 in grants to PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC?
- DWIGHT AND LINDA DAVIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $308,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 32 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