Virginia · Nonprofit
THE STERLING PLAYMAKERS
THE STERLING PLAYMAKERS (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $669 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($669). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $669
- Net assets
- $263k
What The Sterling Playmakers does
Mission
To produce and promote theatrical arts for the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Theatrical productions - the organization had six main productions with a total of 2,700 attendees. The organization's wspr (radio theater) and on that note (cabaret) performed at various festivals, and the theater members provided technical, costume and staff support to various schools and community centers. The organization also donated season tickets to various charitable organizations for raffle fundraisers.
$41,560 spent83% of program spendingThe organization sent out newsletters and flyers to acquaint the general public on activities of the organization and the various aspects of community theatre.
$8,572 spent17% of program spendingDonations to schools, community centers and support organizations:supported specific events at seneca ridge middle school, sterling middle school, and sterling community center. Provided costumes and set pieces to several schools and churches.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,132.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $315k to $293k (−7%).
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.
14% of THE STERLING PLAYMAKERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
John Geddie
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $144 → $118.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 STERLING PLAYMAKERS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE STERLING PLAYMAKERS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $669 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.
Against its field
THE STERLING PLAYMAKERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE STERLING PLAYMAKERS
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 STERLING PLAYMAKERS?
- THE STERLING PLAYMAKERS (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $669 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($669). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE STERLING PLAYMAKERS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $669 in grants to THE STERLING PLAYMAKERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE STERLING PLAYMAKERS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $669 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE STERLING PLAYMAKERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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