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THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING

THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,837 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($180,588). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$740k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$248k
Net assets
$273k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring does

Mission

To provide innovative management of the silver spring black box theatre to both resident companies and other artists and organizations as the rental calendar allows

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring provides performance space for the resident companies and other artists and organizations, as the rental calendar allows. The Theatre Consortium presents high quality, diverse, and reasonably priced performance art across disciplines. The Theater Consortium of Silver Spring received donated use of the theater space from Montgomery County valued at $450,000, which allows the organization to provide their programming to broader audiences across Montgomery County and Maryland.

    $680,980 spent$117,793 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $680,980.

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 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($70k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2018 Revenue 55 ($64k) Expenses 122 ($85k) Net assets 66 ($41k)2019 Revenue 103 ($120k) Expenses 174 ($122k) Net assets 52 ($32k)2020 Revenue 91 ($106k) Expenses 155 ($109k) Net assets 40 ($24k)2021 Revenue 138 ($161k) Expenses 162 ($114k) Net assets 134 ($82k)2022 Revenue 231 ($269k) Expenses 225 ($158k) Net assets 344 ($212k)2023 Revenue 173 ($202k) Expenses 231 ($162k) Net assets 409 ($251k)2024 Revenue 210 ($244k) Expenses 338 ($237k) Net assets 396 ($244k)2025 Revenue 635 ($740k) Expenses 1020 ($716k) Net assets 444 ($273k)
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Revenue (635)Expenses (1020)Net assets (444)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 2021 to 2022, from $89k to $272k (+207%).

$62k
$41k
$32k
$31k
$89k
$272k
$283k
$281k
$289k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2022 36% · 2023 34% · 2024 26% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 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.

$46k
’17
−$21k
’18
−$2k
’19
−$4k
’20
$47k
’21
$111k
’22
$40k
’23
$7k
’24
$24k
’25
0.5
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.

2022202320242025
Listed12121212
Joined·+3+3+0
No longer listed·330
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $33k → $58k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING’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

THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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

96% 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 THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING.

73%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 54% · 2022 55% · 2023 79% — 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

96% of THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.

MD

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING

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 Maryland

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 16%Fundraising 8%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING?
THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,837 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($180,588). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $247,837 in grants to THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING?
ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER is the largest funder on record, with $180,588 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THEATRE CONSORTIUM OF SILVER SPRING find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 4 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