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POCKET THEATRE INC

POCKET THEATRE INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,853 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($22,228). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$278k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$382k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Pocket Theatre Inc does

Mission

To provide quality productions at reasonable prices for the citizens of hot springs and surrounding communities, and to build for the future by involving young people today.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided live theatre productions and children's theatre workshops on a volunteer basis for the citizens of hot springs.

    $182,018 spent
    95% of program spending
  2. To provide live theatre productions and children's theatre workshops on a volunteer basis for the citizens of hot springs, helping to build for the future by involving young people today.

    $9,734 spent
    5% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $191,752.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($86k) Expenses 100 ($73k) Net assets 100 ($140k)2018 Revenue 162 ($139k) Expenses 138 ($101k) Net assets 124 ($173k)2019 Revenue 94 ($81k) Expenses 122 ($89k) Net assets 237 ($331k)2020 Revenue 15 ($13k) Expenses 75 ($55k) Net assets 111 ($155k)2021 Revenue 71 ($61k) Expenses 54 ($39k) Net assets 127 ($177k)2022 Revenue 158 ($135k) Expenses 173 ($126k) Net assets 133 ($186k)2023 Revenue 234 ($201k) Expenses 147 ($107k) Net assets 200 ($279k)2024 Revenue 247 ($212k) Expenses 262 ($191k) Net assets 215 ($300k)2025 Revenue 325 ($278k) Expenses 268 ($196k) Net assets 274 ($382k)
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Revenue (325)Expenses (268)Net assets (274)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 2019 to 2020, from $341k to $155k (−55%).

$140k
$179k
$341k
$155k
$177k
$187k
$281k
$301k
$385k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

24% of POCKET THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
$38k
’18
−$8k
’19
−$42k
’20
$22k
’21
$9k
’22
$94k
’23
$20k
’24
$83k
’25
6.1
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.

202320242025
Listed988
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·10
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $5k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 POCKET 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

POCKET THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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

76% 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 POCKET THEATRE INC.

74%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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

76% of POCKET THEATRE 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. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Arkansas funders.

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

’18
’23
Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

POCKET THEATRE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like POCKET 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 Arkansas

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds POCKET THEATRE INC?
POCKET THEATRE INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,853 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($22,228). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does POCKET THEATRE INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $29,853 in grants to POCKET THEATRE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of POCKET THEATRE INC?
ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $22,228 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like POCKET THEATRE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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