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The Sea Ranch Thespians

The Sea Ranch Thespians (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,250 to it, the largest being WINGATE FOUNDATION ($89,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$19k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$89k
Net assets
$58k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 74%
01What it does

What The Sea Ranch Thespians does

Program

  1. The organization performs at no charge amatuer community theater in The Sea Ranch, a northern California community.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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 ($20k) Expenses 100 ($27k) Net assets 100 ($81k)2018 Revenue 343 ($68k) Expenses 116 ($31k) Net assets 145 ($117k)2019 Revenue 75 ($15k) Expenses 137 ($37k) Net assets 118 ($95k)2020 Revenue 68 ($14k) Expenses 98 ($27k) Net assets 101 ($82k)2021 Revenue 26 ($5k) Expenses 54 ($15k) Net assets 89 ($72k)2022 Revenue 98 ($19k) Expenses 69 ($19k) Net assets 90 ($73k)2023 Revenue 83 ($17k) Expenses 86 ($23k) Net assets 82 ($66k)2024 Revenue 120 ($24k) Expenses 105 ($28k) Net assets 76 ($61k)2025 Revenue 94 ($19k) Expenses 80 ($22k) Net assets 72 ($58k)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (80)Net assets (72)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 2017 to 2018, from $81k to $117k (+45%).

$81k
$117k
$95k
$82k
$72k
$73k
$66k
$61k
$58k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Listed344444777
Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+3+1+0
No longer listed·00000010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $11k.

Funder
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total
funders
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1

From the IRS filings of The Sea Ranch Thespians’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 Sea Ranch Thespians leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 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 Sea Ranch Thespians's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Sea Ranch Thespians is better cushioned than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve26.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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In California

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05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Sea Ranch Thespians: 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 Sea Ranch Thespians?
The Sea Ranch Thespians (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,250 to it, the largest being WINGATE FOUNDATION ($89,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Sea Ranch Thespians have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $89,250 in grants to The Sea Ranch Thespians, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Sea Ranch Thespians?
WINGATE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $89,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Sea Ranch Thespians find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2 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