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ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,588,220 to it, the largest being HAWTHORNDEN FOUNDATION ($500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$639k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$672k
7/13 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Royal Shakespeare Company America Inc does

Mission

Royal shakespeare company america's charitable purpose is exclusively to support the work of the royal shakespeare company (rsc) in the united states, the united kingdom, and around the world. This support comes most evidently through our grants to the rsc; however, our service accomplishments show that we support the work of the rsc in america in several additional and related ways.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2023-2024, rsc america's major efforts were focused on continued engagement of american audiences with the rsc and its work. Rsc america held a joint reception with the folger library at the british embassy, for various rsc stakeholders. Rsc also sponsored meetings, receptions, and lectures by the new co-artistic directors of the rsc. Rsc america additionally funded a new york workshop of a play that will ultimately be performed in both the uk and the us. Rsc america also facilitated visits to see totoro at london's barbican theatre. Finally, rsc america facilitated a trip to stratford-upon-avon by american donors and other stakeholders during the weeklong celebration of "shakespeare's birthday."

    $625,354 spentof which $615,159 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $625,354.

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 ($514k) Expenses 100 ($576k) Net assets 100 ($35k)2018 Revenue 230 ($1.2M) Expenses 120 ($693k) Net assets 1514 ($523k)2019 Revenue 193 ($993k) Expenses 171 ($985k) Net assets 1411 ($488k)2020 Revenue 100 ($514k) Expenses 88 ($505k) Net assets 1380 ($477k)2021 Revenue 101 ($520k) Expenses 96 ($551k) Net assets 1410 ($487k)2022 Revenue 111 ($569k) Expenses 121 ($697k) Net assets 997 ($345k)2023 Revenue 110 ($563k) Expenses 108 ($622k) Net assets 1598 ($552k)2024 Revenue 207 ($1.1M) Expenses 124 ($714k) Net assets 2540 ($878k)2025 Revenue 124 ($639k) Expenses 149 ($857k) Net assets 1944 ($672k)
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Revenue (124)Expenses (149)Net assets (1944)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $477k (−62%).

$36k
$612k
$1.2M
$477k
$487k
$345k
$557k
$878k
$1.0M
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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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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$62k
’17
$488k
’18
$8k
’19
$9k
’20
−$31k
’21
−$128k
’22
−$59k
’23
$351k
’24
−$218k
’25
8.5
months of
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.

Board chair

Shriti Vadera

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed11131212912101110
Joined·+2+2+0+0+3+1+1+1
No longer listed·03030302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $49k → $701k.

7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA 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

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

49% 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 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC.

31%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 71% · 2019 49% · 2020 42% · 2021 34% · 2022 38% · 2023 71% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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 ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $758k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−34% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

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.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 7%Fundraising 4%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

65%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC?
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,588,220 to it, the largest being HAWTHORNDEN FOUNDATION ($500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,588,220 in grants to ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC?
HAWTHORNDEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY AMERICA INC find more funders?
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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 13 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