Iowa · Nonprofit
RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO
RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO (Iowa) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,363,742 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($409,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $697k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $329k
What Riverside Theatre Co does
Mission
Riverside theatre strengthens the cultural fabric of iowa city through intimate, engaging productions from classics to new works, fostering a deeper appreciation for the dramatic arts. See schedule o for continuation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Through its roster of full productions, outreach events, and educational activities, riverside theatre serves the iowa city area with programming that fosters appreciation for the dramatic arts, employs artists, and strengthens community through opportunities for entertainment, serious discourse, and reflection. During its 2024/2025 season, riverside theatre presented six ticketed productions, a free outdoor shakespeare production in iowa city's lower city park, post-show discussions, special events, and educational programs, delivering patrons and students high- quality theatrical experiences while providing professional opportunities for local and regional theatre artists to further their craft.
$614,703 spent$270,495 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $614,703.
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 2021 to 2022, from $449k to $873k (+95%).
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 6% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 12% · 2021 21% · 2022 7% · 2023 4% · 2024 15% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% 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.
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 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $10k → $95k.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 71% · 2019 48% · 2020 63% · 2021 85% · 2022 25% · 2023 37% — 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
45% of RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
66% of RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO'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 $464k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $900k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO's revenue grew 58% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO 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 RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO: 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 RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO?
- RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO (Iowa) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,363,742 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($409,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,363,742 in grants to RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $409,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing