Florida · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $607,466 to it, the largest being JACARLENE FOUNDATION ($330,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $426k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $607k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Southern Shakespeare Company does
Mission
Produce works of shakespeare to educate the public in the arts and cultivate aspiring actors
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Produce shakespeare plays for the public with no admission fee. Total attendance was approximately 9,000.
$150,536 spentof which $147,772 as grants$154,333 earned by the program74% of program spendingEducational outreach programs for local schools, including students performing as "the bardlings" at various venues. Eduational materials developed for teachers.
$51,705 spentof which $28,715 as grants$63,459 earned by the program26% of program spendingn/a
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $202,241.
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 2022 to 2023, from $118k to $41k (−65%).
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: 2021 44% · 2022 70% · 2023 51% · 2024 44% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Bianca Montague
Executive director
Board chair
Kim Newman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $47k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’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
SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
25% 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 SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 37% · 2021 95% · 2022 45% · 2023 56% — 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
75% of SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
89% of SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k 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
SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY has grown faster 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
Government funding SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- ADVERTISING - GENERAL $3k
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 SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: 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 SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY?
- SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $607,466 to it, the largest being JACARLENE FOUNDATION ($330,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $607,466 in grants to SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY?
- JACARLENE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 11 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