Texas · Nonprofit
STAGE WEST THEATRE
STAGE WEST THEATRE (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,921,527 to it, the largest being ANN L RHODES AND CAROL GREENE RHODES ($540,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Stage West Theatre does
Mission
Stage west serves the greater fort worth community with theatre and other live events that entertain, provoke, and inspire.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Programming: during fy2024-2025, Stage West Theatre presented its 46th season, consisting of six mainstage productions across approximately 120 performances and employing approximately 180 professional artists, designers, technicians, and other creative professionals.the season opened with heidi schreck's what the constitution means to me, a pulitzer prize finalist and tony award-nominated play exploring the u.s. Constitution through personal storytelling and live debate. The season also included the play that goes wrong, a co-production with watertower theatre; eboni booth's pulitzer prize-winning primary trust; penelope, a musical adaptation inspired by homer's odyssey; sherlock holmes and the adventure of the fallen souffl; and james ijames' pulitzer prize-winning fat ham, a contemporary reimagining of shakespeare's hamlet. Together, the season reflected stage west's commitment to presenting varied professional theatre encompassing contemporary work, comedy, music, new interpretations of classic stories, and works that encourage conversation and reflection.education and artist development: stage west's education programming continued significant growth during fy2024-2025. The…
$1,138,929 spent$929,672 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,138,929.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.1M to $2.8M (+162%).
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 1% · 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of STAGE WEST THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Dana Schultes
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $61k → $417k.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 STAGE WEST 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
STAGE WEST THEATRE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
32% 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 STAGE WEST THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 38% · 2019 26% · 2020 47% · 2021 27% · 2022 31% · 2023 34% — 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
85% of STAGE WEST THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
87% of STAGE WEST THEATRE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $602k 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
STAGE WEST THEATRE's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like STAGE WEST 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 STAGE WEST 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 STAGE WEST THEATRE?
- STAGE WEST THEATRE (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,921,527 to it, the largest being ANN L RHODES AND CAROL GREENE RHODES ($540,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STAGE WEST THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,921,527 in grants to STAGE WEST THEATRE, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STAGE WEST THEATRE?
- ANN L RHODES AND CAROL GREENE RHODES is the largest funder on record, with $540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STAGE WEST THEATRE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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