Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THEATRE EXILE COMPANY
THEATRE EXILE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,676,487 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($923,560). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $832k
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $671k
What Theatre Exile Company does
Mission
Theatre exile is dedicated to providing a creative environment in which philadelphia artists can grow and experiment, while introducing the greater philadelphia community to new locally written works and established plays that are reinterprited in original ways.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization accomplished its goals by producing 4 live shows and 3 special events during the 2024/2025 season to an audience of more than 3,290 from the local community.
$488,831 spent$70,649 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $488,831.
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 2022 to 2023, from $724k to $1.4M (+99%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 6% · 2022 38% · 2023 4% · 2024 9% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of THEATRE EXILE COMPANY’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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Desiree Salera
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $61k → $456k.
7 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 EXILE COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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 EXILE COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 32% · 2019 35% · 2020 44% · 2021 26% · 2022 59% · 2023 43% — 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
60% of THEATRE EXILE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
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
89% of THEATRE EXILE COMPANY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $509k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
THEATRE EXILE COMPANY's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THEATRE EXILE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 THEATRE EXILE COMPANY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THEATRE EXILE COMPANY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THEATRE EXILE COMPANY?
- THEATRE EXILE COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,676,487 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($923,560). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THEATRE EXILE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,676,487 in grants to THEATRE EXILE COMPANY, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THEATRE EXILE COMPANY?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $923,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEATRE EXILE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 36 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