Maine · Nonprofit
PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater
PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,698 to it, the largest being Onion Foundation ($39,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $-22170
What PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater does
Mission
Portland Youth Theater's primary exempt purpose is to unlock self-discovery in young people through the transformative power of theater. Our programs reach hundreds of kids each week in our venue and in schools throughout our community, providing a safe, nurturing and happy environment in which kids can create theater while learning about themselves and the world around them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
INSTRUCTIONAL CLASSES AND PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES - Kids of all ages, abilities, and experience levels participated in a full season of all-student, public performances of musicals and plays. In 2024 we piloted new educational theater programs with intentionally designed curricula branded specifically to our organization.
$136,846 spent92% of program spendingIN-SCHOOL RESIDENCIES - Teaching artists develop and deliver customized performing arts programming to take place in public schools, independent schools, and homeschool programs. We continued to expand our in-school programs to include partnerships with new organizations and schools in 2024, with a focus on bringing our educational programs to after-care programs - a particular need in our community.
$4,068 spent3% of program spendingPRIVATE MUSIC INSTRUCTION: After a pilot test in 2022-2023, STAGES rolled out a Private Music Instruction studio to deliver high-quality piano and voice instruction to young people ages 7-17 in 2024. Individual music instruction at STAGES was designed with the same foundation of our other educational programs - meeting kids where they are at with a non-competitive instruction model that balances quality music instruction with a low-pressure, non-recital-based format, providing our best possible scenario for developing skills and cultivating a life-long appreciation and love of music.
$7,161 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $148,075.
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. 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 $92k to $44k (−52%).
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.
10% of PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Deanna Etienne
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $7k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater’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
PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 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
93% of PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $198 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
PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater?
- PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,698 to it, the largest being Onion Foundation ($39,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $42,698 in grants to PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater?
- Onion Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $39,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTLAND YOUTH THEATER dba STAGES Youth Theater 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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