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RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC

RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,000 to it, the largest being CORNING INCORPORATED FOUNDATION ($35,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$110k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$86k
Net assets
$154k
5/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Ragged Edge Community Theatre Inc does

Mission

Theatre enrichment

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Cultural opportunities are enhanced in the community through theatrical productions and workshops. Programs were attended by thousands of patrons.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($122k) Net assets 100 ($256k)2018 Revenue 129 ($141k) Expenses 99 ($121k) Net assets 108 ($277k)2019 Revenue 81 ($89k) Expenses 102 ($124k) Net assets 94 ($241k)2020 Revenue 108 ($119k) Expenses 98 ($119k) Net assets 94 ($241k)2021 Revenue 37 ($41k) Expenses 62 ($76k) Net assets 80 ($206k)2022 Revenue 133 ($145k) Expenses 89 ($108k) Net assets 95 ($243k)2023 Revenue 80 ($87k) Expenses 96 ($117k) Net assets 83 ($213k)2024 Revenue 77 ($85k) Expenses 103 ($125k) Net assets 67 ($173k)2025 Revenue 101 ($110k) Expenses 106 ($129k) Net assets 60 ($154k)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (106)Net assets (60)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $217k to $178k (−18%).

$277k
$279k
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$208k
$245k
$217k
$178k
$158k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

44% of RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’17
$20k
’18
−$35k
’19
−$630
’20
−$35k
’21
$37k
’22
−$30k
’23
−$41k
’24
−$19k
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Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Allan Barlow

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $9k.

From the IRS filings of RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE 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

RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 64% · 2020 53% · 2021 59% · 2022 50% · 2023 59% — 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

59% of RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Kentucky out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC?
RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,000 to it, the largest being CORNING INCORPORATED FOUNDATION ($35,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $86,000 in grants to RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC?
CORNING INCORPORATED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE 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 5 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