Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE JUNGLE THEATER
THE JUNGLE THEATER (Minnesota) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,527,813 to it, the largest being NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ($870,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $789k
What The Jungle Theater does
Mission
See schedule o.the jungle's mission is to create courageous, resonant theater that challenges, entertains, and sparks expansive conversation. The jungle's vision is to be a neighborhood theater with national impact, indispensable to our community and aspirational to the field. Founded in 1991, the jungle demonstrates how the arts can be a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization, with a strong history of business partnerships. In 1999 the theater moved into its permanent home, an intimate 152-seat space across the intersection from its original location. Along with its reputation for artistic excellence, the jungle is prized by artists for supporting their development and providing access to career-defining opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mainstage productions:our 2023-24 season sustained our commitment to a mix of productions built in-house along with presented productions. Our season included sold-out devised work "dinner for one created by jungle's artistic director, christina baldwin, and local theatermakers sun mee chomet and jim lichtscheidl. We also partnered with the moving company to produce their brand new adaptation called "say all the truth and with we are married to present their bold immersive play called "rich dogs". These three shows rounded out our fall 2023 offerings and played to sold out crowds. We finished our mainstage season with a regional premier of playwright indra craig glavan's "a jumping-off point". Along side our mainstage season, we also produced several play readings and a new works festival featuring our artistic cohort members, katie ka vang and isabella star lablanc. We also continued our pay as you are ticket model - paya tix model has been very successful since its implementation in 2021. The market price of our tix is $45, though patrons can choose to pay more or less between $15 and $95, no questions asked. Last year 4,483 people used the under $45 tix option, which is…
$1,050,434 spent$364,234 earned by the program99% of program spendingLynlake street art series:we co-sponsored the lynlake street art series, a weekend festival in july 2024. The event resulted in new visual artwork on 22 walls in the lynlake neighborhood, featuring the work of more than 65 local and national artists. We also coordinated youth educational graffiti demonstrations led by sprayfinger. Hundreds of people stopped the individual wall sites. Audiences were diverse in age, race/ethnic origin, and gender, with many families in attendance. Our partnership beautified the area, brought economic benefits, and provided a community celebration that was free and open to all.
$10,000 spent1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,060,434.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.8M to $1.3M (−24%).
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 7% · 2019 5% · 2020 8% · 2021 42% · 2022 50% · 2023 10% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of THE JUNGLE THEATER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Rich Thompson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $51k → $194k.
13 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 JUNGLE THEATER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
THE JUNGLE THEATER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 JUNGLE THEATER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 30% · 2019 56% · 2020 49% · 2021 36% · 2022 41% · 2023 26% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of THE JUNGLE THEATER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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 JUNGLE THEATER draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $476k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 JUNGLE THEATER's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE JUNGLE THEATER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$70k
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 JUNGLE THEATER
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JUNGLE THEATER: 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 JUNGLE THEATER?
- THE JUNGLE THEATER (Minnesota) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,527,813 to it, the largest being NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ($870,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JUNGLE THEATER have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $2,527,813 in grants to THE JUNGLE THEATER, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JUNGLE THEATER?
- NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY is the largest funder on record, with $870,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JUNGLE THEATER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 43 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