South Carolina · Nonprofit
SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE
SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $590,587 to it, the largest being CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ($419,805). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $591k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Spartanburg Little Theatre does
Mission
The mission of the Spartanburg Little Theatre is to activate, cultivate, and educate our community by providing quality theatrical experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization stimulates an interest in the arts, music, literature and dramatics in persons of all ages through education, trained supervision, and direction in amateur dramatics.
$721,240 spent$429,373 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe youth theatre specifically targets children to cultivate dramatic talent and to teach grace, good speech, stage presence, and self-confidence through public appearances for the spartanburg community. The organization conducted 4 youth performances with all aspects of the productions ran by children. In addition, a variety of spring classes and summer camps were hosted during the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025.
$236,761 spent$287,896 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $958,001.
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 2018 to 2019, from $315k to $1.2M (+270%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 9% · 2021 32% · 2022 11% · 2023 6% · 2024 6% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $108k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE’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
SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 86% · 2019 64% · 2020 67% · 2021 86% · 2022 74% · 2023 72% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
99% of SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k 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
SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE is better cushioned than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE: 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 SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE?
- SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $590,587 to it, the largest being CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ($419,805). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $590,587 in grants to SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE?
- CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $419,805 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 13 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