Florida · Nonprofit
THE PLAYERS INC
THE PLAYERS INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,059 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($936,892). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $985k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What The Players Inc does
Mission
The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sarasota's first and oldest performing arts organization, second oldest in the state of florida, began in 1930, in the midst of the great depression, with a season of one-act plays. Two hundred and eighty-one members/patrons each paid a two-dollar subscription fee for the series.the players first permanent home was built of native pecky cypress in 1936. The original theatre seated two hundred forty six and cost just over $9,000. The pecky cypress building was torn down to make room for the next theatre on north tamiami trail, which opened in january 1974, seating four hundred ninety seven. That facility was sold in 2018 and vacated in october 2020 at the height of closures related to the covid-19 pandemic. The players performed in various indoor and outdoor venues until opening an indoor venue of its own again in december 2021 at 3501 s. Tamiami trail in the crossings at siesta key.the players theatre has achieved a reputation for quality productions and for creating programming that entertains, educates, and enlightens. The theatre serves a diverse audience with memorable and meaningful year-round performing arts that includes the broadway theatre series, the snap (something new…
$1,210,958 spent$554,612 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe players performing arts studio opened in 1995 and is the educational arm of the players theatre. It is a reputable performing arts studio and vital feeder to the players theatre for actors. The studio offers classes for students age three and older. Classes include the study of acting, singing and dance. At the advanced level, crossover skills are emphasized. There are twenty-nine classes offered each week, specialty workshops, and an eight-week intensive summer camp for children ages seven to seventeen. In addition to classes, there are three community outreach elements of the studio: the players kids; and the sarasota players follies, a fifty-five and older travelling performing troupe. Over three hundred students benefit from classes at the studio annually.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,210,958.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.1M to $9.8M (+364%).
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 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 1% · 2020 7% · 2021 71% · 2022 118% · 2023 17% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of THE PLAYERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
William Skaggs
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $52k → $20k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 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 PLAYERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 PLAYERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 95% · 2019 84% · 2020 72% · 2021 75% · 2022 31% · 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of THE PLAYERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
81% of THE PLAYERS 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 $233k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 PLAYERS INC's revenue fell 58% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE PLAYERS 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Stage at Payne Park LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PLAYERS 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 PLAYERS INC?
- THE PLAYERS INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,059 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($936,892). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE PLAYERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,242,059 in grants to THE PLAYERS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PLAYERS INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $936,892 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PLAYERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 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