Wisconsin · Nonprofit
St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc
St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,389 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($85,817). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $951k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $147k
- Net assets
- $608k
What St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc does
Mission
To make the performing arts welcoming to all people as an essential part of the well being of individuals and vitality of the community. St. Croix Festival theatre produces plays, presents concerts and provides arts education activities for youth and adults.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, Festival Theatre invited thousands of patrons to enjoy our five main stage shows, along with improv performances, a staged reading, music performances, and other special events. In the summer, we held theatre arts education camps for youth in Siren WI, Chisago City, and St. Croix Falls WI and saw 65 campers over the course of four weeks of camp. We employed theatre artists from across the country and locally. We engaged with our volunteer patrons who built friendships and community when they came to help out at one of the 5 show construction breakdown processes or to usher and serve at the cafe during one of our performances. We operated year round in the St. Croix Valley.
$365,413 spent$129,663 earned by the program100% of program spendingFestival Theatre embarked on a very successful capital campaign in 2024, raising money to furnish the lighting, audio, and other performing equipment necessary to reopen the Historic Auditorium of St. Croix Falls to its fullest performing capacity. The campaign was a great success raising over $700,000 to support the return of the St. Croix Festival Theatre to its original performance venue. Additional assets of $271,000 were acquired as equipment as part of this restoration.
$700,000 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $365,413.
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 2023 to 2024, from $112k to $637k (+469%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc’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. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $14k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc’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
St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 48% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc: 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 St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc?
- St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,389 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($85,817). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $147,389 in grants to St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,817 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like St Croix Falls Festival Theatre Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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