North Carolina · Nonprofit
THEATRE OF DARE
THEATRE OF DARE (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $65 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($65). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $65
- Net assets
- $153k
What Theatre of Dare does
Mission
Theatre of Dare is an organization that shall study teach and promote theatre in all its phases by providing a practical yet experimental environment for the creative artist and technician by creating and presenting quality productions in a professional manner that will offer challenge to the talents and skills available in the community and ultimately by providing entertainment and enlightenment of the viewer through the use of dramatic form We also contribute to students graduating from high school or are currently in college who are pursuing a degree in the performing arts through our scholarship foundation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Theatre of Dare produced an eight show season for the 2024-2025 year These productions included two musicals Lizzie and 9 to 5 the Musical two comedies Social Security The Shark is Broken one thriller Misery and two dramas Now Then and Significant Other from September through August There were a total of 7111 patrons who attended these productions
$29,028 spent47% of program spendingDuring the summer Theatre of Dare provides childrens summer camps for local and visiting youth These camps have a different subject each week which included Heroes Villains 2Youth Apprentice Companies Voice Acting Musical Theatre Special FX Makeup There were a total of 287 students attend these camps throughout the summer
$22,719 spent37% of program spendingEvery year we provide scholarship to students who are pursuing a degree in the performing arts These students can be local area high school students or those whom are already in college For the 2024-2025 year we provided 5 high school students with 1800 scholarships and one college student 1000 scholarship
$10,000 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $61,747.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $94k to $124k (+32%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kelsey Thompson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $22.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 OF DARE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of THEATRE OF DARE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like THEATRE OF DARE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THEATRE OF DARE: 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 OF DARE?
- THEATRE OF DARE (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $65 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($65). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THEATRE OF DARE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $65 in grants to THEATRE OF DARE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THEATRE OF DARE?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEATRE OF DARE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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