Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE
PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,687 to it, the largest being QUEST FOR THE BEST ($28,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $363k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $419k
What Players Club of Swarthmore does
Mission
The Players Club of Swarthmore is an all-volunteer community theater committed to providing a welcoming environment that fosters training and development in the performing arts, artistic excellence and enriches the cultural life of the region through the production of plays, musicals, children's theater and other musical or staged reading performances. We educate, learn from and inspire a new generation of theater-goers and theater-makers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization present an average of 7-8 productions (each with 8 to 10 performances) on our mainstage, including musicals and non musicals, using volunteer actors, directors and crews who are members of the surrounding communities, including the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Audiences are primarily from the counties surrounding our venue, but some audience members come from considerable distances to see our productions.
$295,241 spent$158,572 earned by the program94% of program spendingPresentation of plays, cabarets, staged readings, improv comedy and children's theater productions in our second stage black box theater. Typical audience for each performance ranges from 35-80 persons. These productions allow us to present work for specific audiences (e.g. children's theater), new works (e.g. staged readings) and works that may not appeal to a wide audience. This series also gives new directors a chance to work at our theater. It provides revenue opportunities at times that our theater would otherwise be "dark." The children's series allows us to introduce young children to the joy of live theater.
$11,883 spent$30,815 earned by the program4% of program spendingProvisions of space for classes and presentation of performances of separate outside organizations, including charitable 501 (C)(3) organizations.
$0 spent$3,040 earned by the program0% of program spendingRevenue represents refreshments and other amenities that are made available to the audiences. Revenue also includes costume & prop rentals to other theater groups, as well as revenue derived from hosting outside performance groups in the Player's Club Theater
$8,576 spent$42,773 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $315,700.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $312k to $429k (+38%).
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: 2021 68% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $127 → $6k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE’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
PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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.
Where its funders are
65% of PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $687 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.
Organizations like PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE: 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 PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE?
- PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,687 to it, the largest being QUEST FOR THE BEST ($28,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $43,687 in grants to PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE?
- QUEST FOR THE BEST is the largest funder on record, with $28,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLAYERS CLUB OF SWARTHMORE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), 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