Virginia · Nonprofit
PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX
PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,414 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ($34,414). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $127k
What Providence Players of Fairfax does
Mission
Community theater performances.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Providence Players presented three staged productions during the year at the James Lee Community Center Theater in Falls Church, VA. Total attendance was 1,627 theater patrons.
$43,817 spent100% of program spendingProvidence Players made a grant to Ms. Schrader's Memorial Holiday Pajama and Book Fund, c/o Memorial Lutheran Church, Shippensburg, PA. This grant honors the memory of Dan Schrader's mother; Dan is the theater manager at the James Lee Theater.
$0 spentof which $100 as grants0% of program spendingProvidence Plays supported three graduating high school seniors with scholarships to pursue an education in fine arts.
$0 spentof which $7,000 as grants0% of program spendingDonation to the American Association of Community Theater (AACT) to support its work.
$0 spentof which $30 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,817.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $132k to $148k (+12%).
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.
38% of PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $21k.
From the IRS filings of PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX’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
PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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 PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 52% — 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
77% of PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX's grant income comes from Virginia 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
PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
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 PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX: 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 PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX?
- PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,414 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ($34,414). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $44,414 in grants to PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX?
- ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,414 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROVIDENCE PLAYERS OF FAIRFAX find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2020–2025), 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