Arizona · Nonprofit
STRAY CAT THEATRE
STRAY CAT THEATRE (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,519 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($28,740). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2018
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Stray Cat Theatre does
Mission
Decidedly off the beaten path, Stray Cat is indie theatre at its best: quirky, edgy and irreverent. Stray Cat Theatre scratches the Valley's itch for a visceral, provocative theatre experience for culture-savvy cats who crave something beyond the standard kitty chow. Founded in 2002, Stray Cat is considered the Valley's leading alternative theatre. Stray Cat's stage productions are distinct from those of other theatre companies across the Valley. Consistent with our mission, Stray Cat is committed to: 1. Aggressively seeking out and showcasing the most vital contemporary material. 2. Cultivating the next generation of theatre artists in the Valley. 3. Constantly exploring theatrical possibility -- what the live theatre is uniquely capable of. 4. Striving to produce or develop original, unpublished work. 5. Fostering a creative incubator -- a free-radical environment dedicated to risk-taking where artists can find a home to do consistently fascinating things.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
For seven of the past eleven seasons, Stray Cat has won the AriZoni Award for either Best Overall Production or Best Overall Musical, as well as numerous awards for direction, acting and technical achievement. Phoenix New Times named Stray Cat "Best Community Theatre" for four years, lauded Ron May as "Best Theatre Director" and Stray Cat as "Best Reason to go to the Theatre all Season Long in 2015," and named our production of Stupid F***ing Bird, an update of Chekhov's The Seagull, Best Non-Equity Play in 2016. The Arizona Republic in 2016 named Ron May Director of the Year, in 2015 called our production of Year of the Rooster the "best show of the season" and hailed Eric Beeck, our resident scenic designer, for "best scenic design." The newspaper named Stray Cat "Best Alternative Theatre" numerous times. SCT has been profiled nationally in BackStage and Variety magazines as a national champion of New Works. Of 62 productions, 60 have been Arizona premieres. Artistic Director Ron May was recently named a finalist for the Zelda Fichandler Award by SDC and was also nominated for a Governor's Arts Award.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
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 $23k to $3k (−89%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $600 → $12.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 STRAY CAT 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
STRAY CAT THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 STRAY CAT THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% — 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
89% of STRAY CAT 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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like STRAY CAT 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.
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 STRAY CAT 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 STRAY CAT THEATRE?
- STRAY CAT THEATRE (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,519 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($28,740). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STRAY CAT THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $32,519 in grants to STRAY CAT THEATRE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STRAY CAT THEATRE?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $28,740 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRAY CAT 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 5 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