Texas · Nonprofit
ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER
ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,761 to it, the largest being Margaret Sue Rust Foundation ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $385k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $118k
- Net assets
- $621k
What Rockport Little Theater does
Mission
The primary purpose of the association is to provide a vehicle for the education, production and development of the performing arts, including, but not limited to, drama, musical and related cultural productions and to encourage community participation in all aspects thereof.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide community members the opportunity to participate in all aspects of the theatre arts at no charge. Opportunities include, writing, acting, directing, set construction, prop and costume design, lighting and sound design, music and dance. To achieve these goals, Rockport Little Theatre operates a small performing arts theatre and provides the community with dramatic and musical performances as well as other forms of entertainment and educational workshops.
$120,338 spent$415,296 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $120,338.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $870k to $748k (−14%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 14% · 2024 55% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $5k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER’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
ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 61% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
98% of ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $261 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER: 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 ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER?
- ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,761 to it, the largest being Margaret Sue Rust Foundation ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $117,761 in grants to ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER?
- Margaret Sue Rust Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), 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