Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,313 to it, the largest being EUREKA FOUNDATION ($42,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $120k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $111k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Scranton Shakespeare Festival does
Mission
Scranton Shakes is a nonprofit, government-recognized 501(c)3 organization founded by a board of local community members and theatre professionals hailing from the Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA) region. ?It all started in 2011, when Scranton native, Michael Bradshaw Flynn conceived the idea to organise a free public performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Scranton's historic Nay Aug Park.??Nearly 1,000 people made their way to the park to enjoy an afternoon of theatre. The production team was thrilled with the response and determined to continue, thus, the festival was born. ?In 2015, after a few successful summers, Jonathan Stephens, Rebecca Azenberg, and Joseph Daniel joined Michael Bradshaw Flynn to form the festivals first official Producing team. Their combined expertise in the arts industry allowed the organization to expand its programming exponentially and move into a new phase of free theatre-making.?Since then the festival has continued to grow year by year. The annual
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The program successfully achieved their purpose of promoting andteaching theather as an art for children.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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 2023 to 2024, from $42k to $22k (−48%).
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.
72% of SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Dawn Mchurl
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $14k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL’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
SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 59% · 2019 43% · 2020 74% · 2021 34% · 2022 71% · 2023 73% — 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
17% of SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: 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 SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL?
- SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,313 to it, the largest being EUREKA FOUNDATION ($42,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $111,313 in grants to SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL?
- EUREKA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 10 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