Indiana · Nonprofit
SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC
SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,157,501 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ($464,904). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What South Bend Civic Theatre Inc does
Mission
To enrich and create community through live theatre. This is accomplished through the following three pillars: excellence, education, and equity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Revenues exceeded expenses in 2023 by 253,201 which will be used for new and exciting things in 2024. Box office revenue also increased 6% from 379,843 in 2023 to 403,786 in 2023. Education revenues increased 22% from 68,813 in 2022 to 84,005 in 2023. Highlights from 2023: events included 3 staged readings, 12 shows including 4 musicals and 8 plays which also includes a junior musical. There were also toured shows to the history museum, the st. Joseph public library, and riley and adams high schools. The educational program hosted 18 week-long summer camps, 10 six week-long classes, and provided instruction to 351 students. Community service participation included school field trips for 3,067 students including 2,344 title 1 students. We also presented at 49 area schools. As the theatre prepares for 2024, we are highly optimistic. The upcoming season is filled with incredible variety, world and regional premieres, increased educational partnerships, and the continuation of august wilson's american century cycle.
$826,219 spent$446,462 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $826,219.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.6M to $3.8M (+4%).
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 1% · 2019 4% · 2020 14% · 2021 11% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $1k → $104k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE 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
SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 20% · 2020 69% · 2021 79% · 2022 36% · 2023 34% — 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
60% of SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
51% of SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $563k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $595k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC's revenue grew 44% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC?
- SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,157,501 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ($464,904). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,157,501 in grants to SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $464,904 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 25 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