Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (Connecticut) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $798,268 to it, the largest being THE JANE AND WILLIAM CURRAN FOUNDATION INC C/O MARGARET ANDREASSI ($270,600). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $810k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $798k
- Net assets
- $353k
What The Elm Shakespeare Company does
Mission
The Elm Shakespeare Company is a multi-cultural theatre company committed to establishing a discourse with the new haven community through the medium of shakespeare's plays.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides, in collaboration with schools and other community partners, educational programs based on the works of shakespeare. These programs are designed to develop the students' linguistic, communicative, and collaborative talents. The organization also presents theatre productions free to the public each summer in a public park in new haven. Additionally, the organizaiton presents other performances throughout the year in alternate spaces.
$537,773 spent$89,922 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $537,773.
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 2023 to 2024, from $549k to $321k (−41%).
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 6% · 2018 9% · 2019 5% · 2020 30% · 2021 8% · 2022 11% · 2023 13% · 2024 10% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $54k → $132k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’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 ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 84% · 2019 53% · 2020 76% · 2021 48% · 2022 35% · 2023 33% — 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
57% of THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
50% of THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k 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
THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE ELM SHAKESPEARE 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: 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 ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY?
- THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (Connecticut) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $798,268 to it, the largest being THE JANE AND WILLIAM CURRAN FOUNDATION INC C/O MARGARET ANDREASSI ($270,600). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $798,268 in grants to THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY?
- THE JANE AND WILLIAM CURRAN FOUNDATION INC C/O MARGARET ANDREASSI is the largest funder on record, with $270,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing