Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,123,980 to it, the largest being ADRIENNE DILLARD-COONS MEM FDN ($2,468,420). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Seattle Children's Theatre Association does
Mission
The mission of Seattle Children's Theatre Association is to provide children of all ages access to professional theatre with a focus on new works and theatre education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Live mainstage theatre productions and productions of new works for youth are two of the major pillars of sct's mission.
$4,978,165 spent$1,282,842 earned by the program80% of program spendingSct drama school and the education outreach program are year-round activities which provide classes, workshops, and residencies to students. These programs reached 8,466 students in fiscal year 2024/25.
$1,182,339 spentof which $14,318 as grants$875,231 earned by the program19% of program spendingSuper hero's project is a multi-theatre project operating throughout the united states with a mission to build bridges with communities and audiences of color and/or historically marginalized to see themselves on stage.
$31,685 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,192,189.
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 $7.7M to $11M (+36%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 10% · 2021 26% · 2022 41% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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 17 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $456k → $953k.
11 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.5M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Seattle Children's Theatre Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. 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
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 34% · 2019 21% · 2020 22% · 2021 41% · 2022 33% · 2023 44% — 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
40% of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $185k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$185k
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 SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Seattle Children's Theatre Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION: 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 SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION?
- SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,123,980 to it, the largest being ADRIENNE DILLARD-COONS MEM FDN ($2,468,420). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $9,123,980 in grants to SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION?
- ADRIENNE DILLARD-COONS MEM FDN is the largest funder on record, with $2,468,420 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 58 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