Minnesota · Nonprofit
PRIME PRODUCTIONS
PRIME PRODUCTIONS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,187 to it, the largest being SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ($78,367). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $113k
- Net assets
- $192k
What Prime Productions does
Mission
Prime Productions seeks to explore, illuminate and support women over fifty and their stories through the creative voice of performance. We intend to create productions that include and encourage the participation of all genders, races, sexual orientations and abilities. It is through these varied perspectives that a complete picture can emerge and be celebrated. We have realized there is a scarcity of substantial roles in the theater for women of a certain age: female characters tend to be stereotyped, marginalized, or lacking altogether. Considering there is so much great experienced female talent in the twin cities that is not fully utilized, either by the plays being produced or the roles being written, we want to fill this gap. We aim to produce plays that employ these valuable female theater artists and address issues relevant to an aging population. We have created a theater company that: 1. Hires artists of a certain age both on stage and behind the scenes. 2. Introduces divers
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The goals of Prime Productions include: 1. Produce full staged productions encompassing our mission and values. 2. Become a professional theater with intent to hire union talent from day one. 3. Provide work to twin cities artists with pay. 4. Promote diversity, inclusion and equity. 5. Produce staged readings to develop community involvement in material selection for each production season. 6. Plan pre-show focus groups and post-show discussions to engage the community with the art. 7. Organize and launch a playwriting festival to encourage the development of material relevant to our mission and to the population we serve. Prime Productions produced one production during 2023 titled "the revolutionists- and approximately 1,000 people viewed the production. Prime Productions was hosted three stage reading during the year and approximately 350 people joined.
$106,840 spent$21,214 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $106,840.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $252k to $211k (−16%).
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: 2022 28% · 2023 131% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of PRIME PRODUCTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Anne Marie Gillen
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $16k → $47k.
From the IRS filings of PRIME PRODUCTIONS’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
PRIME PRODUCTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
100% 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 PRIME PRODUCTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 72% — 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
69% of PRIME PRODUCTIONS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
PRIME PRODUCTIONS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PRIME PRODUCTIONS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 PRIME PRODUCTIONS: 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 PRIME PRODUCTIONS?
- PRIME PRODUCTIONS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,187 to it, the largest being SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ($78,367). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRIME PRODUCTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $113,187 in grants to PRIME PRODUCTIONS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRIME PRODUCTIONS?
- SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $78,367 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRIME PRODUCTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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