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THE OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC

THE OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,537 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC ($50,236). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$124k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$71k
Net assets
$80k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What The Old Academy Players Inc does

Mission

Community theater

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Performed theatrical productions to keep the old time community theater experience alive

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The 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 ($69k) Expenses 100 ($59k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2018 Revenue 109 ($75k) Expenses 137 ($81k) Net assets 90 ($53k)2019 Revenue 111 ($77k) Expenses 148 ($87k) Net assets 71 ($42k)2020 Revenue 89 ($61k) Expenses 100 ($59k) Net assets 75 ($44k)2021 Revenue 27 ($18k) Expenses 57 ($34k) Net assets 49 ($29k)2022 Revenue 84 ($58k) Expenses 111 ($66k) Net assets 74 ($43k)2024 Revenue 142 ($98k) Expenses 144 ($85k) Net assets 146 ($86k)2025 Revenue 180 ($124k) Expenses 219 ($130k) Net assets 136 ($80k)
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Revenue (180)Expenses (219)Net assets (136)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $42k to $68k (+63%).

$59k
$53k
$42k
$68k
$51k
$43k
$86k
$80k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

12% of THE OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
−$6k
’18
−$11k
’19
$2k
’20
−$15k
’21
−$8k
’22
$13k
’24
−$6k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $12k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
2
2
3
2
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS 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 OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

72% 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 OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 55% · 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.

Where its funders are

100% of THE OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

78%

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 OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC?
THE OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,537 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC ($50,236). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $70,537 in grants to THE OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC?
THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,236 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE OLD ACADEMY PLAYERS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 3 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