Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PRIME STAGE
PRIME STAGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $738,467 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($155,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $288k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $738k
- Net assets
- $-3671
What Prime Stage does
Mission
Our mission is to bring great literature and history to life through the transformative process of live theatre to entertain, inform, enrich, and inspire audiences with engaging programs that deliver long-lasting benefits to theatregoers, families, students, and educators of our region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Prime Stage produces three mainstage productions for theatre-goers, families, students, an educators.our january sprouts promotes for black history month. This year it was rosa parks and the montgomery bus boycott. This has increased our attendance with the african american attendance.our 4th annual high school drama awards were presented in january at the new hazlett center for performing arts. The awards are designed to reward excellence in high-school drama for non-musical productions that are student-run. We had 9 schools participate in the award ceremony.the literacy in action classroom support system can be used with teachers in-person or virtually. The units are theatre-based activities using theatre techniques to help struggling readers. This is presented at no charge for title-one schools in pittsburgh. This also provides students an opportunity to see live theater with our student matinee field trips.we offer a special performance per production with audio description for the blind or visually impaired, signed interpreted and real-time live captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing, and sensory inclusive for anyone with sensory issues.teacher resource guides are…
$273,525 spent$59,327 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $273,525.
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 2017 to 2018, from $49k to $0 (−100%).
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 19% · 2018 7% · 2019 15% · 2020 15% · 2021 30% · 2022 6% · 2023 10% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of PRIME STAGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $25k → $143k.
4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 PRIME STAGE’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 STAGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 57% · 2019 39% · 2020 26% · 2021 31% · 2022 25% · 2023 35% — 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
54% of PRIME STAGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
94% of PRIME STAGE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PRIME STAGE's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding PRIME STAGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
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 PRIME STAGE
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 Pennsylvania
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
69%
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 STAGE: 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 STAGE?
- PRIME STAGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $738,467 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($155,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRIME STAGE have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $738,467 in grants to PRIME STAGE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRIME STAGE?
- THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRIME STAGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 26 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