Kentucky · Nonprofit
PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC
PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,021 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC ($91,046). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $146k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Public Theatre of Kentucky Inc does
Mission
To enrich the cultural life of bowling green and the surrounding region through the production of high quality theatre and other performing arts events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Operation of a public theatre for the residents of south central kentucky to encourage and foster the arts and professional development of actors.
$19,997 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,997.
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 2019 to 2020, from $80k to $149k (+87%).
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.
0% of PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC’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. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $15k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC’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
PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 79% · 2019 75% · 2020 68% · 2021 62% · 2022 59% · 2023 100% — 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
70% of PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $44k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k 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
PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC 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 PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC
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 Kentucky
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC: 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 PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC?
- PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,021 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC ($91,046). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $146,021 in grants to PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC is the largest funder on record, with $91,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 7 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