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THE THEATER FOUNDATION

THE THEATER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Inland Empire Community Foundation ($10,000). 0 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
$177k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$444k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What The Theater Foundation does

Mission

The Theater Foundation is dedicated to creating opportunities to develop and enhance quality performing arts in the temecula valley.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Build, maintain and provide a permanent adult and youth community theater and provide a permanent location for temecula valley community playhouse and fine arts network.

    $32,897 spentof which $6,700 as grants
    37% of program spending
  2. Creating opportunities to develop and enchance quality performing artsin the temecula valley.

    $56,569 spent$61,703 earned by the program
    63% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $89,466.

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 ($287k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($332k)2018 Revenue 6 ($16k) Expenses 120 ($24k) Net assets 94 ($311k)2019 Revenue 9 ($26k) Expenses 94 ($19k) Net assets 98 ($325k)2020 Revenue 7 ($21k) Expenses 119 ($24k) Net assets 93 ($307k)2021 Revenue 6 ($17k) Expenses 49 ($10k) Net assets 98 ($326k)2022 Revenue 12 ($35k) Expenses 46 ($9k) Net assets 104 ($345k)2023 Revenue 23 ($66k) Expenses 397 ($79k) Net assets 101 ($334k)2024 Revenue 23 ($65k) Expenses 136 ($27k) Net assets 111 ($369k)2025 Revenue 62 ($177k) Expenses 507 ($101k) Net assets 134 ($444k)
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Revenue (62)Expenses (507)Net assets (134)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 2024 to 2025, from $383k to $455k (+19%).

$332k
$311k
$325k
$327k
$346k
$364k
$351k
$383k
$455k
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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
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

57% of THE THEATER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$267k
’17
−$8k
’18
$7k
’19
−$3k
’20
$7k
’21
$26k
’22
−$14k
’23
$37k
’24
$76k
’25
43
months of
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.

20172025
Listed1314
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

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 THEATER FOUNDATION’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 THEATER FOUNDATION'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. $10k 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 THEATER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin43% · top quartile
Months of reserve42.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like THE THEATER FOUNDATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
93%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

60%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE THEATER FOUNDATION?
THE THEATER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Inland Empire Community Foundation ($10,000). 0 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 THEATER FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to THE THEATER FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of THE THEATER FOUNDATION?
Inland Empire Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE THEATER FOUNDATION 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.

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 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