Maine · Nonprofit
PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY
PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY (Maine) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,606,776 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($839,899). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What Portland Stage Company does
Mission
To invest in art, learning, and connecting diverse communities through exceptional theatrical productions and programs that captivate and inspire.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Last season, portland stage developed eight handcrafted theatrical productions; our education programs engaged almost 10,000 students in 13 maine counties; combined with additional readings, workshops and galas, we welcomed thousands of patrons into our space, and hundreds of artists were connected with our community. We embraced audiences in our newly renovated space as we celebrated our maine rootsfrom trailblazer margaret chase smith to beloved maine playwright john carianiand found ways to nurture the next generation through a new cycle of the clauder competition for new england playwrights and a brilliant teen shakespeare company's production of a midsummer night's dream. Our biggest goal was for people to feel that portland stage belonged to them, that it was their home. By embracing our community, we found our community embraced us back.
$2,330,594 spent$1,240,940 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,330,594.
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.
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 $6.7M to $9.1M (+36%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 32% · 2022 21% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Anita Stewart
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $97k → $768k.
12 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. 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
PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
48% 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 PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 42% · 2019 48% · 2020 22% · 2021 42% · 2022 35% · 2023 26% — 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: 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 PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY?
- PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY (Maine) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,606,776 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($839,899). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $3,606,776 in grants to PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $839,899 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 49 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