Texas · Nonprofit
SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW
SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,100 to it, the largest being DON LOONEY CHARITABLE TRUST FD028 ($28,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $127k
What Spotlight Cast & Crew does
Mission
The mission of Spotlight Cast & Crew is to provide a musical theatre experience that is directed, choreographed, designed (lighting, sound and costume) and performed by students in grades 8-12 in the greater Fort Worth Area. The objective of our mission is to provide annual theatre intensives in the summer at no cost to any of the students involved. Spotlight Cast & Crew is an equal opportunity organization and provides opportunities to students regardless of race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, socioeconomic status, gender or sexual orientation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2023, we produced a musical theatre production of Chicago Teen Edition with a cast and crew of 30 students. We provide a tuition-free summer intensive to all interested students in the Greater Fort Worth Area.
In 2025, we produced a musical theatre production of Guys and Dolls with a crest and crew of 39 students. We provide a tuition-free summer intensive to all interested students in the Greater Fort Worth Area.
In 2024, we produced a musical theatre production of The Little Mermaid with a cast and crew of 35 students. We provide a tuition-free summer intensive to all interested students in the Greater Fort Worth Area.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $11k to $0 (−100%).
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.
82% of SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $4k → $14k.
From the IRS filings of SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW’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
SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 63% · 2023 63% — broadly stable.
“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
92% of SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW runs a healthier operating margin 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 SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW: 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 SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW?
- SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,100 to it, the largest being DON LOONEY CHARITABLE TRUST FD028 ($28,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $51,100 in grants to SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW?
- DON LOONEY CHARITABLE TRUST FD028 is the largest funder on record, with $28,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 7 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