Iowa · Nonprofit
THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC
THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC (Iowa) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,704,597 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,073,239). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What The Englert Civic Theatre Inc does
Mission
To inspire and activate positive community growth through the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided a community performance space in order to: provide a wide-range of diverse programing in the performing arts; highlight the talents of local performers, artists, and ensembles; and enhance the vitality of iowa city's downtown by preserving its last historic theatre.
$2,683,003 spent$1,821,341 earned by the program100% of program spendingProvided a community performance space in order to: provide a wide-range of diverse programming in the performing arts; highlight the talents of local performers, artists, and ensembles; and enhance the vitality of iowa city's downtown by preserving its last historic theatre.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,683,003.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.6M to $7.5M (+35%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 11% · 2021 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $104k → $83k.
9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE 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 ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 77% · 2019 86% · 2020 73% · 2021 80% · 2022 28% · 2023 63% — 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
40% of THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
79% of THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE 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 $357k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC's revenue grew 69% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC?
- THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC (Iowa) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,704,597 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,073,239). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,704,597 in grants to THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $1,073,239 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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