Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,931,981 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,811,975). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Shakespeare & Company Inc does
Mission
The mission of shakespeare & company is to deliver a sustainable and vital program of performance, training, and education, integrated for the deepened experience of the artists, the audience, the company, and the community. (continued on schedule o) we embrace the core values of shakespeare's work: collaboration, commitment to language, visceral experience and classical ideals, expressed with physical prowess and an embodied contemporary voice.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Performance:the organization produces live theatrical performances that include the building of costumes and sets from organic raw materials and designs; original lighting and sound design and musical scores. Live performances were performed outdoors in two theaters and inside in two facilities. Winter staged readings and production and lectures were devised as well. Seating capacity per performance varied from 150 to 400.
$2,771,339 spent$1,480,657 earned by the program63% of program spendingEducation:fiscal year 2026 consisted of many education programs. Fall festival of shakespeare, a 10 week in-school residency in ten schools with public performances in the schools and on our campus. Northeast regional tour of shakespeare, a 4 month northeast tour of in-school performances of non-equity production of a shakespeare play. Shakespeare in the courts project, in collaboration with the berkshire junvenile court abjudicated juvenile offenders work with artists and participate in classes, rehearsals and performances of shakespeare scenes. Riotous youth, summer acting camp for children and teens that introduce them to the language, story, characters and ideas in the shakespeare plays. Residencies, local and (continued on schedule o) non-local in-school programs with teams of teachers, directors and technical staff working in collaboration with educators to introduce students to shakespeare. Shakespeare & young company, designed to further develop young actors and empower them as creative individuals. Professional development workshops, for teachers and teaching artists, one-week workshops held in the summer to help create shakespeare learning on stage and in classrooms.
$1,147,729 spent$640,088 earned by the program26% of program spendingTraining:the center for actor training offers a wide range of acting workshops for professional artists at various stages in their careers, from university students to advanced professionals. The training is based on teaching methods developed by organization founders including tina packer and kristin linklater, and has evolved for more than 40 years through the collaboration of specialized teachers in every discipline. Month-long intensive - 4 week program geared towards mid-career professional actors which focuses on multi-faceted shakesperian principles. Summer shakespeare intensive - 4 week program geared towards under-graduate theater majors, recent graduates and early-career professional actors. (continued on schedule o)we also offer many weekend intensive trainings as well as week-long focused trainings.
$461,677 spent$403,295 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,380,745.
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 2025 to 2026, from $13M to $15M (+13%).
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 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 28% · 2022 32% · 2023 19% · 2024 1% · 2025 1% · 2026 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 10 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
Beverly Hyman
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $379k → $791k.
18 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
51% 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 SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 47% · 2019 56% · 2020 45% · 2021 27% · 2022 23% · 2023 25% — 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
55% of SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 62 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 62 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Government funding SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $755k on record — $65k federal, $690k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$65k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$690k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$200
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 SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC?
- SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,931,981 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,811,975). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $5,931,981 in grants to SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,811,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 75 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