Washington · Nonprofit
SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE
SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $766,957 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($400,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $762k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $767k
- Net assets
- $267k
What Spokane Valley Summer Theatre does
Mission
To enrich, entertain and serve the community in a safe, professional environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To inspire artistic excellence in the heart of our community in a professional environment.
$190,684 spent$53,474 earned by the program33% of program spendingTo prepare students to step into their perspective career field with the appropriate resources, fundamental tools, and decision-making abilities to continue their interests and passions on their own.
$1,218 earned by the programThrough routine practice of physical and mental discipline, theatre students will develop an awareness as they learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses while setting aside differences and learning by example to come together to achieve a common goal.
$388,760 spent$443,568 earned by the program67% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $579,444.
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 $22k to $206k (+846%).
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: 2020 47% · 2021 33% · 2023 9% · 2024 4% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE’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 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.
Board chair
Yvonne Ak Johnson
Ex-officio board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $25k → $211k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER 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
SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
86% 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 SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 45% · 2022 62% · 2023 47% — 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
43% of SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
79% of SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE'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 $163k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $604k 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
SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE 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
Organizations like SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER 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 Washington
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER 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 SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE?
- SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $766,957 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($400,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $766,957 in grants to SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 12 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