Iowa · Nonprofit
TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY
TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY (Iowa) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,978 to it, the largest being BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ($146,850). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $213k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $242k
- Net assets
- $420k
What Tallgrass Theatre Company does
Mission
Tallgrass Theater Company serves to enrich and contribute to the cultural and economic vitality of West Des Moines and surrounding communities by producing theater productions and educational programs. We maintain a shared arts venue that provides a save, supportive and inclusive environment for artists, audiences and other members of the community
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We produced five theatrical productions attended by an audience of 2,293 patrons. This provided numerous volunteer opportunities for actors, stage crews, and technical personnel. We produced an additional outdoor concert attended by more than 500 patrons.
$107,301 spent$65,708 earned by the program56% of program spendingOur Seedlings Childrens Theatre program provided week-long summer camps teaching skills in performance, improvisation, audition techniques, and backstage skills in set design construction, costuming, lighting, and sound. This program served 209 youth participants with 17 student performances to a total audience of 607 patrons.
$76,644 spent$46,786 earned by the program40% of program spendingWe shared our theatre venue with other local arts groups to provide a safe, supportive, and inclusive space for their communities. A resident improvisation group gave 8 performances to an audience of 271 patrons. We offered gallery space for local artists to display their work concurrent with our theatre productions.
$7,664 spent$5,187 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $191,609.
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.
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 $362k to $416k (+15%).
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: 2022 48% · 2023 19% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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 broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $24k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 funders by total. 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
TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 96% · 2019 51% · 2020 50% · 2021 61% · 2022 49% · 2023 95% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
95% of TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k 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
TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY?
- TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY (Iowa) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,978 to it, the largest being BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ($146,850). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $241,978 in grants to TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY?
- BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC is the largest funder on record, with $146,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TALLGRASS THEATRE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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