New Mexico · Nonprofit
SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE
SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE (New Mexico) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,063 to it, the largest being THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $262k
- Net assets
- $778k
What Santa Fe Playhouse does
Mission
Santa Fe Playhouse creates community on stage and off by holding space for unexpected conversations through intriguing and vital programming. We create community by: -connecting artists with audiences through theatre. This includes: new works and new work development, new voices, classics re-imagined, plays with multi-generational appeal. -innovating access to theater inside and outside our four walls. -creating inspiring and diverse educational opportunities. -providing radical inclusion and hospitality. -embedding our nationally recognized artists into the local community. -being sustainable, financially secure and fiscally responsible. -connecting artists with audiences through theatre. This includes: new works and new work development, new voices, classics re-imagined, plays with multi-generational appeal.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Santa Fe Playhouse (the playhouse) is a professional theater located in santa fe, new mexico. The playhouse creates and produces professional theater that creates community on stage and off by holding space for unexpected conversations through intriguing and vital programming. Its annual programs typically include six full productions, a robust educational program, new play development, presented works, and hosts numerous smaller theatrical organizations and groups. The playhouse recognizes the need for emphasis on educational and support groups to ensure the participation of as many community members as possible in every aspect,including performing, technical, and funding.
$870,678 spent$406,746 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $870,678.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.1M to $865k (−25%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 27% · 2021 42% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $1k → $78k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE’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
SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 95% · 2021 41% · 2022 94% · 2023 24% — 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
50% of SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE'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
SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE: 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 SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE?
- SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE (New Mexico) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,063 to it, the largest being THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $262,063 in grants to SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE?
- THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 17 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