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SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC

SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,484 to it, the largest being THE ARTS COUNCIL OF FAYETTEVILLE CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ($184,841). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$136k
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$212k
Grants received
$-69864
Net assets
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%

Against its field

SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($27k)2020 Revenue 68 ($68k) Expenses 140 ($38k)2021 Revenue 91 ($90k) Expenses 228 ($62k)2022 Revenue 188 ($187k) Expenses 360 ($97k)2023 Revenue 213 ($211k) Expenses 367 ($99k)2024 Revenue 175 ($173k) Expenses 387 ($105k)2025 Revenue 138 ($136k) Expenses 310 ($84k)
2018202020212022202320242025
Revenue (138)Expenses (310)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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

61% of SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$72k
18
$30k
20
$29k
21
$89k
22
$112k
23
$69k
24
$52k
25
0.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $36k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)6% 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 SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE 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

SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC.

87%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 86% · 2022 79% · 2023 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

92% of SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

MN
NC

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

20
21
22
23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.

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 4 funders put you typical 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 SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE 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 North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

47% of spending goes to programs.

Program 47%Management 53%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE 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 SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC?
SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,484 to it, the largest being THE ARTS COUNCIL OF FAYETTEVILLE CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ($184,841). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $212,484 in grants to SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC?
THE ARTS COUNCIL OF FAYETTEVILLE CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $184,841 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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