California · Nonprofit
Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse
Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $346,526 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($51,550). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $347k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse does
Mission
6th Street Playhouse is a performing arts theater that engages, entertains and inspires a diverse community. We do this by consistently producing plays, musicals, and educational programs that are of the highest quality and reach the broadest possible constituency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
6th Street Theater produces high quality theatrical productions to the general public through the use of two theatres. The main theater, the G.K. Hardt Theatre, seats 184 and includes disabled seating and Phonic Ear loop for the hearing impaired. The Monroe Stage is an intimate and flexible seat black box theater located next door to the G.K. Hardt Theatre. The Studio holds full productions of classics, new works and theater that showcases creative risk-taking.Nine staged productions plus three special event productions were held in the 2024-2025 season. Approximately 22,000 tickets were sold for the staged productions and 1,000 tickets were sold for the special event productions that included 13 performances of Shakespeare's Hamlet co-produced with a Shakespeare Company, a new Playhouse concept. Also added was a new Theater for Young Audiences, an original works production of Holly Days, which sold 480 tickets.
$1,151,939 spent$758,629 earned by the program80% of program spending6th Street Theater provides educational and artistic outreach classes and workshops for youth and adults of all ages and levels of experience through the School of Drama. Youth - Youth classes are for children ages 2 - 12 years old. These classes are designed to foster an interest in theater arts, deepen connections between family members and communities, and provide tools for self expression.Teen - Teen classes are for teens 13-19 years old. These classes are designed to support and foster the development of young artists, help teenagers acknowledge and understand their complicated worlds through self awareness and a deepened connection with their peers, and help them develop tools for confidence and problem solving.Adult - Adult classes provide a place to explore, strengthen skills, and grow as artists and people.Seniors - Classes for seniors, ages 55 years old and over, are designed to help transform negative attitudes towards aging to a new vision of continuous growth, and to honor and celebrate the sharing of rich and varied experiences of older adults.In the 2024-2025 season, the Education Program 6th Street Studio held 20 classes that served 395 students. These students…
$284,297 spent$342,506 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,436,236.
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 $887k to $4.4M (+399%).
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 2% · 2021 19% · 2022 32% · 2023 14% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street 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. 2 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 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $27k → $94k.
9 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 Rosa Players DBA 6th Street 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 Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
83% 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 Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 43% · 2019 45% · 2020 37% · 2021 62% · 2022 47% · 2023 54% — 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
30% of Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
80% of Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse'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 $68k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $278k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse?
- Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $346,526 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($51,550). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $346,526 in grants to Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $51,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse 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 18 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