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Sunset Playhouse Inc

Sunset Playhouse Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,477 to it, the largest being Chase Family Foundation Inc ($85,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.4M
Revenue FY2025
10
Funders on record
$169k
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

Sunset Playhouse Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve13.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($966k) Expenses 100 ($849k) Net assets 100 ($334k)2018 Revenue 117 ($1.1M) Expenses 110 ($930k) Net assets 159 ($533k)2019 Revenue 125 ($1.2M) Expenses 115 ($975k) Net assets 229 ($766k)2020 Revenue 106 ($1.0M) Expenses 96 ($812k) Net assets 292 ($978k)2021 Revenue 86 ($833k) Expenses 66 ($557k) Net assets 375 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 114 ($1.1M) Expenses 109 ($924k) Net assets 428 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 114 ($1.1M) Expenses 124 ($1.1M) Net assets 433 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 133 ($1.3M) Expenses 133 ($1.1M) Net assets 481 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 144 ($1.4M) Expenses 145 ($1.2M) Net assets 532 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (145)Net assets (532)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

17% of Sunset Playhouse Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$117k
17
$199k
18
$233k
19
$212k
20
$275k
21
$179k
22
$44k
23
$162k
24
$157k
25
13
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $250 → $22k.

4 of 10 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 Sunset Playhouse 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

Sunset Playhouse Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

50%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 51% · 2020 87% · 2021 94% · 2022 95% · 2023 45%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

60% of Sunset Playhouse Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

100% of Sunset Playhouse Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI
CT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Sunset Playhouse Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 14%Fundraising 2%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sunset Playhouse 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Sunset Playhouse Inc?
Sunset Playhouse Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,477 to it, the largest being Chase Family Foundation Inc ($85,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Sunset Playhouse Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $169,477 in grants to Sunset Playhouse Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sunset Playhouse Inc?
Chase Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sunset Playhouse 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.

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 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing