Louisiana · Nonprofit
PLAYMAKERS OF BATON ROUGE INC
PLAYMAKERS OF BATON ROUGE INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,050 to it, the largest being IRENE W & CB PENNINGTON PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $55k
What Playmakers of Baton Rouge Inc does
Mission
Playmakers provides entertaining educational experiences for young audiences through quality professional theater and is strongly contributing to the growth and future development of the arts in the baton rouge community.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Playmakers provides acting and theatrical production classes geared toward children of differing groups based on prior experiences and age. Studies have shown that arts education is an important component in any child's development. In these classes, students are provided a safe place to play freely and make creative choices. More advanced classes introduce studetns to differences between stage ande film acting and other essential elements. Due to covid-19 restrictions, we were unable to have the same number of camps and classes. Those that we were able to have were limited to lower attendance than in previous years.
$25,206 earned by the programIn 2021-2022 we began to return to normal programming after being mostly shut down from the covid-19 restrictions on live entertainment. In december we staged a mainstage holiday cabaret called "home for the holidays- and our student advisory board performed a staged reading of "the twelve dates of christmas." in the spring, we had our first weekend educational workshops. In april and may our student advisory board procuded the play, "the wolves," in partnership with mckinley middle magnet school. During the summer we were back to holding summer educational camps from may to july and we had our first big mainstage summer musical, "annie, jr," since before the pandemic. We ended our 2021-2022 season with our first ever teen playwriting festival where local teens submitted plays and the selected plays were produced.
$56,546 spent$34,563 earned by the program100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,546.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $71k to $56k (−21%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2021 53% · 2022 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $15k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 PLAYMAKERS OF BATON ROUGE 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
PLAYMAKERS OF BATON ROUGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of PLAYMAKERS OF BATON ROUGE INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $550 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 PLAYMAKERS OF BATON ROUGE 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PLAYMAKERS OF BATON ROUGE INC?
- PLAYMAKERS OF BATON ROUGE INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,050 to it, the largest being IRENE W & CB PENNINGTON PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLAYMAKERS OF BATON ROUGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $73,050 in grants to PLAYMAKERS OF BATON ROUGE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLAYMAKERS OF BATON ROUGE INC?
- IRENE W & CB PENNINGTON PRIVATE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLAYMAKERS OF BATON ROUGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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