California · Nonprofit
ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS
ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,641 to it, the largest being TRICOASTAL FOUNDATION ($185,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $488k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $212k
- Net assets
- $658k
What Ross Valley Players does
Mission
Ross Valley Players produces diverse, professional quality live theater that evokes, entertains, educates, and enlivens the human spirit. We invite the participation of an evolving and expanding community. We provide an open. Collaborative environment in which to learn and develop theatre crafts. We honor and sustain our legacy as a flourishing cultural resource and pursue the excitement and promise of the future through the transformative power of storytelling. Ross valley prayers - a theatre for our community
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ross Valley Players presents a main season of five productions performed between september 12th and june 8th. For the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, there were 18 performances of "crossing delancey," 20 performances of "the spitfire grill," 18 performances of "blithe spirit," 12 performances of "pet lingerie,- and 18 performances of "the book of will." the total number of performances was 86. The audience size varies between productions. The numner of tickets issued for the five productions was approximately 8,744, plus approximately 530 volunteer assignments. Ticket categories includes general admission >18, general admission <18, subscribers, members, friends and family, group, and complimentary. All productions may include students in acting roles and in technical assignments. Having students and those under age 25 involved in the productions helps Ross Valley Players accomplish an important part of its mission to provide an open, collaborative environment in which one can learn and develop theatre crafts.
$317,954 spent$271,140 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $317,954.
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 2022 to 2023, from $655k to $921k (+41%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 58% · 2022 23% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS’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. 4 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 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $41k → $28k.
1 of 7 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 ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS’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
ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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: 2017 74% · 2018 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 86% · 2022 88% · 2023 89% — 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
ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231 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
ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS is better cushioned than half 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 ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS: 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 ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS?
- ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,641 to it, the largest being TRICOASTAL FOUNDATION ($185,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $211,641 in grants to ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS?
- TRICOASTAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROSS VALLEY PLAYERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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