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PHOENIX THEATRE INC

PHOENIX THEATRE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,506,020 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,917,750). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.9M
Funders on record
30
Grants received
$6.5M
Net assets
$7.7M
21/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Phoenix Theatre Inc does

Mission

Phoenix theatre serves as a catalyst in the indianapolis region to help nurture new talent, showcase diverse voices, and engage audiences with unique, contemporary productions.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Serving as a catalyst in the indianapolis region to help nurture new talent, showcase diverse voices, and engage audiences with unique, contemporary productions.

    $7,561,765 spentof which $6,540,000 as grants$315,711 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,561,765.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($4.5M)2019 Revenue 129 ($2.0M) Expenses 54 ($1.9M) Net assets 97 ($4.4M)2020 Revenue 95 ($1.5M) Expenses 45 ($1.6M) Net assets 95 ($4.3M)2021 Revenue 88 ($1.4M) Expenses 37 ($1.3M) Net assets 97 ($4.4M)2022 Revenue 160 ($2.5M) Expenses 52 ($1.8M) Net assets 111 ($5.0M)2023 Revenue 208 ($3.3M) Expenses 54 ($1.9M) Net assets 141 ($6.4M)2024 Revenue 186 ($2.9M) Expenses 45 ($1.6M) Net assets 169 ($7.7M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (186)Expenses (45)Net assets (169)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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $12M (+11%).

$8.6M
$8.6M
$9.1M
$8.9M
$9.4M
$11M
$12M
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 0% · 2021 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of PHOENIX THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2.0M
’18
$88k
’19
−$105k
’20
$63k
’21
$653k
’22
$1.3M
’23
$1.3M
’24
20
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

William Powell

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed24252825252121
Joined·+1+6+0+10+10+0
No longer listed·03310140
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $398k → $2.0M.

9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 PHOENIX THEATRE INC’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

PHOENIX THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 64%; 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 PHOENIX THEATRE INC.

29%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 46% · 2019 75% · 2020 40% · 2021 27% · 2022 82% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.

“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

54% of PHOENIX THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 PHOENIX THEATRE INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

NY
IN
NC
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PHOENIX THEATRE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Months of reserve19.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like PHOENIX THEATRE 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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

37% of spending goes to programs.

Program 37%Management 61%Fundraising 2%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Phoenix Loan Fund LLC · disregarded
  • Phoenix Theatre Building Corp · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds PHOENIX THEATRE INC?
PHOENIX THEATRE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,506,020 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,917,750). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PHOENIX THEATRE INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $6,506,020 in grants to PHOENIX THEATRE INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHOENIX THEATRE INC?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,917,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHOENIX THEATRE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 30 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