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THEATRE RALEIGH INC

THEATRE RALEIGH INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,716 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF RALEIGH AND WAKE COUNTY INC ($64,591). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$2.1M
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
$228k
Grants received
$439k
Net assets
9/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Against its field

THEATRE RALEIGH INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($557k) Expenses 100 ($618k) Net assets 100 ($179k)2018 Revenue 110 ($615k) Expenses 119 ($737k) Net assets 31 ($55k)2019 Revenue 133 ($741k) Expenses 125 ($774k) Net assets 13 ($23k)2020 Revenue 63 ($349k) Expenses 54 ($334k) Net assets 21 ($38k)2021 Revenue 114 ($635k) Expenses 80 ($495k) Net assets 74 ($132k)2022 Revenue 150 ($833k) Expenses 135 ($836k) Net assets 73 ($130k)2023 Revenue 244 ($1.4M) Expenses 201 ($1.2M) Net assets 170 ($305k)2024 Revenue 382 ($2.1M) Expenses 321 ($2.0M) Net assets 246 ($439k)
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Revenue (382)Expenses (321)Net assets (246)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 1% · 2020 15% · 2021 26% · 2022 12% · 2023 4% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

66% of THEATRE RALEIGH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 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.

$61k
17
$121k
18
$33k
19
$15k
20
$140k
21
$2k
22
$119k
23
$142k
24
0.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $6k → $68k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)52% 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 RALEIGH 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

THEATRE RALEIGH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% 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

80% 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 RALEIGH INC.

28%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 96% · 2020 58% · 2021 91% · 2022 55% · 2023 37%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

25% of THEATRE RALEIGH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

52% of THEATRE RALEIGH INC'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 $110k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

WI
OH
NC

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THEATRE RALEIGH INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & 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 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

83%

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 RALEIGH INC: 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 RALEIGH INC?
THEATRE RALEIGH INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,716 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF RALEIGH AND WAKE COUNTY INC ($64,591). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THEATRE RALEIGH INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $227,716 in grants to THEATRE RALEIGH INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THEATRE RALEIGH INC?
UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF RALEIGH AND WAKE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $64,591 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THEATRE RALEIGH INC 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing