Oklahoma · Nonprofit
THEATRE TULSA INC
THEATRE TULSA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $283,380 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($71,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THEATRE TULSA INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Zink Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Tulsa Area United Wayshared funderslocal
- The Albert and Hete Barthelmes Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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: 2022 41% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of THEATRE TULSA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $7k → $91k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 TULSA 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 TULSA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
65% 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 TULSA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 53% · 2021 50% · 2022 47% · 2023 29% — 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
38% of THEATRE TULSA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
80% of THEATRE TULSA INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k 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.
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 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Zink Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchOK · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 45 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tulsa Area United Wayshared funderslocalOK · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 81 organizations near you
- The Albert and Hete Barthelmes Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Avery Family Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Poe Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James D & Cathryn M Moore Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atkinson Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charles & Marion Weber Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Morningcrest Healthcare Foundationshared funderslocalOK · backs 60 organizations that share your funders · funds 60 organizations near you
- Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundationshared funderslocalOK · backs 86 organizations that share your funders · funds 96 organizations near you
- Mervin Bovaird Foundationshared funderslocalOK · backs 83 organizations that share your funders · funds 103 organizations near you
- Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trusteeshared funderslocalOK · backs 66 organizations that share your funders · funds 80 organizations near you
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.
Government funding THEATRE TULSA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $36k on record — $15k federal, $21k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$13k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Gen Govt$9k
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 TULSA 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 TULSA 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THEATRE TULSA INC?
- THEATRE TULSA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $283,380 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($71,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THEATRE TULSA INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $283,380 in grants to THEATRE TULSA INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THEATRE TULSA INC?
- TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $71,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEATRE TULSA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 16funders 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