Arizona · Nonprofit
PLACES PRODUCTIONS INC
PLACES PRODUCTIONS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $588 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($588). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $588
- Net assets
- $10k
What Places Productions Inc does
Mission
Places! is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that began producing musical theatre programs in 2016. Places' mission is to provide performing arts education and opportunities through summer programs, traveling performance troupes, and fully produced musicals and plays. We believe strongly that the arts should be accessible to everyone and have scholarship programs to ensure all eager students have the opportunity to learn and grow in the arts. We pride ourselves on presenting performances that have historical and cultural significance. We give back to our community by volunteering performances at community events and retirement homes, sharing uplifting and inspiring material.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our spring youth musical of Cinderella had 68 participants, ages 5-18, and was attended by audiences of nearly 2,000. The program supported low income families, and a total of 8 students were on scholarship.
$30,000 spentof which $1,000 as grants38% of program spendingOur summer musicals of Jukebox Time Machine and Grease: School Editions had 59 participants, these shows together were attended by 1,500 people. This program also supported low income families, with 10 students on scholarships.
$40,000 spent50% of program spendingOur show choirs run all school year. They perform for retirement homes and provide performances as community service. 46 students participated during both semesters and completed 12 free performances for the community.
$10,000 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,000.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $19k to $8k (−58%).
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.
5% of PLACES PRODUCTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $241 → $137.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PLACES PRODUCTIONS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of PLACES PRODUCTIONS INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $588 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
PLACES PRODUCTIONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PLACES PRODUCTIONS 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 PLACES PRODUCTIONS 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 PLACES PRODUCTIONS INC?
- PLACES PRODUCTIONS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $588 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($588). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PLACES PRODUCTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $588 in grants to PLACES PRODUCTIONS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLACES PRODUCTIONS INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $588 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLACES PRODUCTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 1 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