Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,842,524 to it, the largest being THE SUZANNE ROBERTS CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT FUND SHELDON BONOVITZ TRUSTEE ($3,290,136). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Philadelphia Theatre Company does
Mission
Philadelphia Theatre Company is a vital civic institution dedicated to the creation of extraordinary theatrical experiences that reflect the essential issues and ideas of our time, and which foster connection, understanding, and transformation. We engage and strengthen our community through exceptional productions of new and contemporary plays and musicals, inspiring education programs, and mutually beneficial civic partnerships. We develop exciting new work that resonates both locally and nationally, and uphold a deep commitment to be a fully inclusive, welcoming home for the artists, audiences, and people of philadelphia.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During the 2024/25 season, Philadelphia Theatre Company (ptc) celebrated its 50th anniversary and engaged more than 7,300 patrons, students, and community members through its artistic, educational, and community programs. Ptc produced three mainstage productions, as well as readings that supported new work development. Education and community engagement programs included student matinees, in-school workshops, long-term residencies, workforce development initiatives, and community-based programming. Ptc also presented a free community tour of night side songs at hospitals, community centers, and places of worship. The suzanne roberts theatre, a fully accessible 365-seat venue in center city philadelphia, hosted 237 days of programming, including productions, educational activities, community events, residencies, and rentals.
$3,216,942 spent$1,083,293 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,216,942.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.4M to $6.8M (+26%).
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% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 6% · 2022 19% · 2023 8% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of PHILADELPHIA THEATRE 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. 4 of the last 8 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
Glenn Gundersen
Chair (eff 1/1/24)
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $249k → $1.2M.
13 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 14% · 2019 16% · 2020 49% · 2021 45% · 2022 36% · 2023 33% — 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
34% of PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
88% of PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $205k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$205k
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 PHILADELPHIA THEATRE 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 PHILADELPHIA THEATRE 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 PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY?
- PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,842,524 to it, the largest being THE SUZANNE ROBERTS CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT FUND SHELDON BONOVITZ TRUSTEE ($3,290,136). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $7,842,524 in grants to PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY?
- THE SUZANNE ROBERTS CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT FUND SHELDON BONOVITZ TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $3,290,136 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 60 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