California · Nonprofit
SHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC
SHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,760 to it, the largest being Severns Family Foundation ($120,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $467k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $223k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Shakespeare's Associates Inc does
Mission
We produce and support theatrical events that explore and celebrate the human spirit with a company that is accessible and integrated with the tri-valley and greater san francisco bay area. We offer multiple cultural activities to the public and offer educational classes related to theater and literacy through public libraries and schools in the tri-valley area. We are currently engaged in an expansion of our staff, growth of our board of directors to provide specific expertise, and discussions with the city of livermore and other local non-profits regarding the construction of a regional multi-use facility for performing arts as part of livermore's downtown development. We are members of the livermore chamber of commerce, danville area chamber of commerce, livermore downtown, visit tri-valley, innovation tri-valley, theatre bay area, theatre communications group, and shakespeare theatre association.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performanceduring the year sparc produced fully-staged productions of shakespeare's sir john falstaff and the merry wives of windsor both outdoors at darcie kent vineyards in livermore, and indoors at the village theatre in danville during the summer of 2025. The productions include the hiring of professional artists and the use of many volunteers. The company also commissions new work for the science@play reading series, bringing the public into the playwriting development processs, enlisting local scientists for input on the new work.
$473,131 spent$168,267 earned by the program94% of program spendingEducationshakespeare's associates offers various education programs for the youth of livermore valley including an in-school program in all 2nd grade classrooms in the livermore valley joint unified school district. Approximately 1,000 second graders participated in the "so wise so young" program, and 100 additional students in after-school and summer camp programs at sparc studio. New adult improv classes were also launched.
$29,212 spent$57,781 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $502,343.
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 2019 to 2020, from $223k to $1.0M (+349%).
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 3% · 2021 20% · 2022 19% · 2023 24% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of SHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Valarie Jonas
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $25k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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'S ASSOCIATES 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
SHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
42% 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'S ASSOCIATES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 73% · 2020 73% · 2021 52% · 2022 100% · 2023 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
93% of SHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
SHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
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Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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'S ASSOCIATES INC?
- SHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,760 to it, the largest being Severns Family Foundation ($120,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $222,760 in grants to SHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC?
- Severns Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHAKESPEARE'S ASSOCIATES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 7 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