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THE THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION
THE THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,954 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $92k
What The Theater Project a Nj Nonprofit Corporation does
Mission
The theater project is dedicated to the presentation of powerful and relevant productions that explore contemporary values and topic issues in an intimate and engaging setting. Dedicated to strengthening the bond our professional artists have with our patrons, the theater project provides our central nj community with a broad range of affordable programing ranging from rarely seen productions to educational offerings and programs supporting the next-generation of actors and playwrights to a safe developmental environment for the cultivation of new plays by authors of all ages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The theater project produced powerful and relevant productions that explore contemporary values and topic issues. The theater project provided a broad range of affordable programing to its central nj community.
$81,703 spentof which $36,342 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,703.
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 2024 to 2025, from $57k to $94k (+63%).
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.
82% of THE THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $47.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION’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 THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 88% · 2022 99% · 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.
Where its funders are
74% of THE THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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 THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
- THE THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,954 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $33,954 in grants to THE THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
- Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE THEATER PROJECT A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 5 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