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THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC

THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,038 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($25,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2k
Revenue FY2024
6
Funders on record
$42k
Grants received
$61k
Net assets
1/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%

Against its field

THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−235% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−52% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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 ($336k) Expenses 100 ($372k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2018 Revenue 159 ($534k) Expenses 132 ($492k) Net assets 210 ($104k)2019 Revenue 97 ($326k) Expenses 96 ($358k) Net assets 145 ($72k)2020 Revenue 60 ($200k) Expenses 49 ($183k) Net assets 181 ($90k)2021 Revenue 68 ($227k) Expenses 41 ($154k) Net assets 333 ($165k)2022 Revenue 39 ($131k) Expenses 70 ($259k) Net assets 70 ($35k)2023 Revenue 16 ($54k) Expenses 14 ($52k) Net assets 74 ($37k)2024 Revenue 1 ($2k) Expenses 2 ($6k) Net assets 123 ($61k)
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Revenue (1)Expenses (2)Net assets (123)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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 9% · 2020 30% · 2021 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,745 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
17
$42k
18
$32k
19
$18k
20
$74k
21
$127k
22
$2k
23
$4k
24
25
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $25.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)93% 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 CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY 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

THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93% 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 CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC.

61%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%growing more concentrated.

“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

93% of THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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.

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.

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 THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY 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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

94%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY 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 THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC?
THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,038 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($25,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $42,038 in grants to THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC?
Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $25,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CUSTOM MADE THEATRE COMPANY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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