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SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS

SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,838 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($86,325). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$421k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$206k
Net assets
$513k
7/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Scottsdale Community Players does

Mission

Provide child-centered programming, founded in arts curriculum and national standards for the performing arts. Programs taught by expert artists, creates an environment which provides a safe and open forum for each student interested in experiencing the arts while building life skills and experiences to take with them into the community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Greasepaint had a remarkable year. Attendance numbers increased, along with both earned and contributed revenue. The organization invested a portion of its reserves in several consultants and marketing specialists as part of a strategy for growth and long-term sustainability. Through this process, the organization gained valuable lessons and tools that will inform future hiring during the current fiscal year. The organization expanded its accessibility programming, adding asl interpreters to one performance of each production and offering dedicated sensory-sensitive programming for children and families affected by autism spectrum disorder asd. These programs continue to grow year over year.

    $332,579 spentof which $4,300 as grants$209,482 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $332,579.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($252k) Expenses 100 ($282k) Net assets 100 ($77k)2018 Revenue 115 ($290k) Expenses 93 ($262k) Net assets 137 ($106k)2019 Revenue 124 ($311k) Expenses 109 ($307k) Net assets 142 ($110k)2020 Revenue 115 ($289k) Expenses 98 ($277k) Net assets 155 ($120k)2021 Revenue 201 ($505k) Expenses 83 ($233k) Net assets 505 ($390k)2022 Revenue 117 ($296k) Expenses 99 ($278k) Net assets 528 ($408k)2023 Revenue 142 ($356k) Expenses 115 ($323k) Net assets 574 ($443k)2024 Revenue 167 ($421k) Expenses 125 ($351k) Net assets 664 ($513k)
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Revenue (167)Expenses (125)Net assets (664)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $143k to $411k (+188%).

$83k
$120k
$131k
$143k
$411k
$413k
$455k
$520k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 34% · 2022 10% · 2023 10% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$30k
’17
$29k
’18
$4k
’19
$13k
’20
$272k
’21
$17k
’22
$34k
’23
$70k
’24
12
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.

Chief executive

Maureen Watson

Executive director artistic director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed788877910
Joined·+3+2+2+0+0+3+4
No longer listed·2221013
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY 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

SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS.

42%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 37% · 2022 83% · 2023 49% — 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

100% of SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

97% of SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

IL
AZ

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Organizations like SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY 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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 9%Fundraising 9%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS?
SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,838 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($86,325). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $205,838 in grants to SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS?
ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $86,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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