Illinois · Nonprofit
The 16th Street Theater NFP
The 16th Street Theater NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,959 to it, the largest being NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK LTD ($73,850). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $143k
- Net assets
- $57k
What The 16th Street Theater NFP does
Mission
The 16th Street Theater exists to encourage debate, discussion and compassion amongst our community by creating and producing intimate and diverse theater with the playwright as our central focus.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The 16th street theater developed and produced diverse new plays in order to tell the stories of all in our community. In 2022, the theater produced two world premiere shows, one of which was awarded a joseph jefferson award for best new play. The shows ran for 18 performances each, with more than 250 tickets made available free to the community. Four new plays were developed through the write collective, a virtual weekly writers group that originated during the covid lockdown and continued through november 2022. The write collective mentored new playwrights and developed their work, offering free guidance and space for a diverse range of artists to create. The write collective presented free virtual staged readings of new plays to the community four times a year. Due to the end of the collaboration with the north berwyn park district which provided the space for the theater, 16th street made the difficult decision to close down at the end of 2022, making this its last season.
$188,151 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $188,151.
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 2021 to 2022, from $141k to $57k (−59%).
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 2% · 2020 15% · 2021 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of The 16th Street Theater NFP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $8k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 The 16th Street Theater NFP’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
The 16th Street Theater NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 The 16th Street Theater NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 44% · 2021 48% · 2022 67% · 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of The 16th Street Theater NFP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
The 16th Street Theater NFP draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
The 16th Street Theater NFP's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
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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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
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 The 16th Street Theater NFP: 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 The 16th Street Theater NFP?
- The 16th Street Theater NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,959 to it, the largest being NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK LTD ($73,850). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The 16th Street Theater NFP have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $142,959 in grants to The 16th Street Theater NFP, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The 16th Street Theater NFP?
- NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK LTD is the largest funder on record, with $73,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The 16th Street Theater NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 8 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