Kentucky · Nonprofit
THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC
THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,473 to it, the largest being Owensboro Health Inc ($108,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $372k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $749k
What Theatre Workshop of Owensboro Inc does
Mission
To educate, inspire, and transform our community through the theatrical arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Theatre workshop of owensboro, inc. (two) operates 2 historic theatres in downtown owensboro. Two produces an eclectic season of community theatre, featuring contemporary and classic plays, musicals, concerts, art exhibits, classes and workshops. Two's education program includes youth shows, drama clubs and camps, two in the schools, and more.
$197,386 spent$93,909 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $197,386.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $659k to $762k (+16%).
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 19% · 2018 16% · 2019 22% · 2020 29% · 2021 39% · 2022 67% · 2023 37% · 2024 18% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $22k → $18k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO 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 WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 46% · 2022 63% · 2023 58% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Organizations like THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC?
- THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,473 to it, the largest being Owensboro Health Inc ($108,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $181,473 in grants to THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC?
- Owensboro Health Inc is the largest funder on record, with $108,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 6 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