Illinois · Nonprofit
PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,250 to it, the largest being RICHARD L & LOIS S WERNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $125k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $92k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Physical Theater Festival Incorporated does
Mission
Physical Theater Festival is an annual contemporary, visual, and physical theater festival that presents new forms of theater that are being performed around the wold.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Celebrated 12th annual edition of physical theater festival- during our annual summer festival, we presented full-length shows and master class workshops by physical theater companies from argentina, brazil, columbia, iceland, uk, minnesota and chicago plus we presented new works by two dozen local artists from chicago- we welcomed around 2,000 audience members in online and indoor performances, panels and workshops- we collaborated with several partner organizations including the chicago latino theater alliance, the international latino cultural center of chicago, the city of chicago, the illinois arts council, instituto cervantes, the consulate general of argentina and the cliff dwellers arts fund
$67,898 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,898.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $3k to $38k (+1180%).
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.
65% of PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED’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
PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
42% 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 PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED.
“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
PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED: 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 PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED?
- PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,250 to it, the largest being RICHARD L & LOIS S WERNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $92,250 in grants to PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED?
- RICHARD L & LOIS S WERNER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHYSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2022–2025), 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