Georgia · Nonprofit
SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC
SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,491 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($127,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $995k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $220k
- Net assets
- $155k
What Savannah Childrens Theatre Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to inspire, educate & entertain children & families through the experience of live theatre, both on & off the stage. As a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, our vision is to build a community of artists who honor lifelong learning & creative growth in the Coastal Empire & beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Shows: Kids On Stage, Grown Ups on Stage, and Mainstage. Theatrical productions for children and adults to enhance their understanding and appreciation of theatre arts.
$152,540 spent$150,863 earned by the program18% of program spendingClasses: Creative Adventures, Creative Dramatics, Junior Company, SCT Encore, Dance for Musical Theatre, Aerial Silks and summer camps. Providing after school and summer enrichment while building confidence, team building skills, problem solving, and exposing children to live theatre.
$195,309 spent$496,613 earned by the program23% of program spendingLet's Put on a Play Field Trips. Curriculum based field trips for school aged children, many from Title 1 schools. Children are exposed to live theatre while building confidence, fostering teamwork, and boosting memorization and learning skills.
$35,841 spent$63,337 earned by the program4% of program spendingContract instruction and shared program service costs including instructor fees, occupancy, royalties, and other expenses supporting all theatrical education and production programs.
$477,541 spent55% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $861,231.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $156k to $431k (+175%).
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 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 6% · 2022 34% · 2023 0% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC’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. 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.
Board chair
LeeAnn Kole
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $3k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE 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
SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 70% · 2022 45% · 2023 51% — 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
75% of SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
90% of SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC'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 $22k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $198k 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.
Against its field
SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC?
- SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,491 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($127,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $220,491 in grants to SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $127,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVANNAH CHILDRENS THEATRE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2019–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing