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THEATER WORKS INC

THEATER WORKS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,320,698 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($604,874). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$767k
8/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Theater Works Inc does

Mission

We provide opportunities for children, patrons, and artists to experience theater that inspires, enriches, and enlightens through the experience of the performing arts. Our vision is to be a significant cultural resource for peoria and the west valley, improving the quality of life through the expression and experience of the performing arts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Theater works continues to produce mainstage performances with record-breaking attendance, as well as educational programs and summer camps. We were also able to serve our community with field trips and free community performances, as well as providing after-school residencies for at-risk youth and other young people that may not have regular access to the performing arts.

    $1,313,515 spentof which $2,395 as grants$1,075,629 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,313,515.

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 ($959k) Expenses 100 ($858k) Net assets 100 ($712k)2019 Revenue 115 ($1.1M) Expenses 130 ($1.1M) Net assets 112 ($795k)2020 Revenue 137 ($1.3M) Expenses 133 ($1.1M) Net assets 127 ($905k)2021 Revenue 97 ($927k) Expenses 86 ($735k) Net assets 145 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 137 ($1.3M) Expenses 108 ($923k) Net assets 191 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 127 ($1.2M) Expenses 160 ($1.4M) Net assets 160 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 158 ($1.5M) Expenses 192 ($1.6M) Net assets 132 ($941k)2025 Revenue 164 ($1.6M) Expenses 194 ($1.7M) Net assets 108 ($767k)
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Revenue (164)Expenses (194)Net assets (108)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+31%).

$820k
$881k
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.1M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 13% · 2021 22% · 2022 52% · 2023 6% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

29% of THEATER WORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$100k
’17
−$7k
’19
$168k
’20
$192k
’21
$389k
’22
−$159k
’23
−$127k
’24
−$91k
’25
1.7
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.

Chief executive

Christopher Hambry

Executive director artistic director

Board chair

Kristofer Kautz

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed18121391613911
Joined··+5+0+11+1+1+5
No longer listed··444453
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $13k → $262k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 THEATER WORKS 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

THEATER WORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 THEATER WORKS INC.

46%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 69% · 2019 49% · 2020 67% · 2021 52% · 2022 60% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.

“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

36% of THEATER WORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

98% of THEATER WORKS INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

IL
NY
MO
AZ
FL

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

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Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $632k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THEATER WORKS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Months of reserve1.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 7%Fundraising 14%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THEATER WORKS INC?
THEATER WORKS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,320,698 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($604,874). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THEATER WORKS INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,320,698 in grants to THEATER WORKS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THEATER WORKS INC?
ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $604,874 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THEATER WORKS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 18 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