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THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE
THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,944,037 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($706,662). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Theatre for Children Inc Dba B Street Theatre does
Mission
B street theatre is one of the region's most enduring and celebrated destinations. We create and inspire community through exceptional live performances and the highest-quality educational programs. We also serve as a trusted incubator for new theatrical works and professional artists at our world-class sacramento home, the sofia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
B street theatre (theatre for children inc.)is proud to bring high-quality theatre and arts education to students and families throughout northern california. Our acclaimed family series invites students, teachers, and parents into our 365 seat, state-of-the-art venue in the heart of midtown sacramento where the stage becomes the classroom. Through live, professional theatre, students experience classic stories and influential historical figures brought vividly to life. Each school year, this program serves more than 50,000 children and families. Beyond our campus, b street theatre also brings the arts directly into schools across the region through in-school workshops focused on acting, playwriting, improvisation, and play development - fostering creativity, communication, and collaboration.
$4,224,282 spent$1,537,064 earned by the program100% of program spendingB street theatre produces seven professional mainstage productions each year, along wtih special engagements, featuring actors' equity association performers and professional directors, designers, and stage managers. Since 1991, b street's mainstage has been a nationally recognized incubator for new work, producing more than 150 world premieres, along with numerous west coast and regional premieres. A core member of the national new play network, b street is recognized as one of the leading producers of new plays in the country. With over 6,000 subscribers - a remarkable number for an organization of its size and location - more than 50,000 patrons attend mainstage productions annually. In recognition of its artistic excellence and impact, b street theatre was honored at the 2025 theatre of the year by the national threatre conference.
The sofia, b street theatre's state-of-the-art venue, is a vibrant home for a wide range of performing arts including music, dance,comedy, and distinguished speakers. Our music series features local, national, and international artists, with past performers, including john waite, the late ed asner, tuck and patti, jackie greene, tycho, and many more. The sofia also serves as a creative home for valued artistic partners such as the sacramento ballet, sacramento contemporary dance theatre, the sacramento gay men's chorus, teatro nagual, the sacramento asian pacific film festival, calidanza, and many others. Together, these presented events and partnerships welcome more than 30,000 patrons annually, introducing new and diverse audiences to the power of live performance.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,224,282.
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 2017 to 2018, from $15M to $29M (+91%).
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 1% · 2018 32% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 34% · 2022 52% · 2023 22% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Lyndsay H Burch
CEO/executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 8 funders, grant income rose $145k → $326k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE’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 FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 49% · 2019 72% · 2020 39% · 2021 53% · 2022 56% · 2023 66% — 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.
How long its funders stay
58% of THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
94% of THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $968k 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.
Against its field
THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33k on record.
- Department of Defense$18k
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE?
- THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,944,037 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($706,662). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,944,037 in grants to THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE?
- Sacramento Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $706,662 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE 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.
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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 17 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