Ohio · Nonprofit
SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ASSOCIATION
SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,990 to it, the largest being PLAY ON SHAKESPEARE ($20,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $122k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $185k
What Shakespeare Theatre Association does
Mission
The shakespreare theatre association (sta) was established to provide a forum for the artistic, managerial, educational leadership for theatres primarily involved with the production of the works of william shakespeare; to discuss issues and methods of work, resources and information; and to act as an advocate for shakespearean productions and training.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Sta is a 30 year-old member service organization (founded in 1991) that convenes annually to provide support and mentorship as well as share best practices with colleagues from within the united states and internationally. This annual conference is our main activity. Membership includes 131 organizational theaters, and 52 associate members representing diverse types of theatre (indoor, outdoor, year-round, seasonal, university-affiliated, free) with wide-ranging budgets ($25,000 to $60,000,000) and equity as well as non-equity companies. Sta's member organizations cover a vast diversity of audiences and staffs composed of a variety of ethnicities, genders, ages and abilities. Our national and international focus ensures a diversity of mission, vision and values within the organization and international membership includes south korea, argentina, canada, great britain, germany, georgia, the commonwealth of the bahamas, and others.
$114,684 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $114,684.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $236k to $215k (−9%).
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.
26% of SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Patrick Flick
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11 → $15k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 THEATRE ASSOCIATION’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 THEATRE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 THEATRE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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
SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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 THEATRE ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half 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
Organizations like SHAKESPEARE 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHAKESPEARE 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 SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ASSOCIATION?
- SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,990 to it, the largest being PLAY ON SHAKESPEARE ($20,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $54,990 in grants to SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ASSOCIATION?
- PLAY ON SHAKESPEARE is the largest funder on record, with $20,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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