Arizona · Nonprofit
SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE
SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,068 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($17,100). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $375k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Spotlight Youth Theatre does
Mission
Spotlight Youth Theatre provides youth and families a safe, welcoming environment where the individual is supported, teamwork is embraced, and creativity is encouraged through high quality performing arts and educational programs that enrich and strengthen our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth theatre builds confidence, personal growth, and responsibility in the performers and the crew, which in turn enriches culture, arts, and creativity in our community. Spotlight produced nine high quality, big-stage productions while offering a safe, family-oriented environment where kids can learn, grow, and perform. Every child has a chance to shine, a place that is safe and free from negativity and an environment where fun and hard work combine into amazing growth experiences, both on and off stage. Our theatre program is as diverse as the community we serve and where all members of the family can join in the endeavor to produce high quality theatre productions that amaze and entertain.
$265,243 spent$194,217 earned by the program87% of program spendingIn an effort to encourage young playwrights, spotlight held its fifth annual playwrights contest. Three original plays were chosen and mentors worked with the playwrights to assist during the production process. A high quality three act play was produced and included in our season using all youth directors, designers and actors.
$30,306 spent$11,049 earned by the program10% of program spendingSpotlight continued a partnership providing access to rehearsal and performance space to local theatre groups without facilities. One of those groupes, imagine theatre company, provides performing arts opportunities to people with special needs.
$8,066 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $303,615.
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 $23k to $61k (+160%).
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: 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 12% · 2022 8% · 2023 10% · 2024 12% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of SPOTLIGHT YOUTH 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. 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $19k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 SPOTLIGHT YOUTH 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
SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 51% · 2021 65% · 2022 48% · 2023 52% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
59% of SPOTLIGHT YOUTH 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 $24k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SPOTLIGHT YOUTH 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPOTLIGHT YOUTH 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 SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE?
- SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,068 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($17,100). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $58,068 in grants to SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 8 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