California · Nonprofit
THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC
THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,259 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($81,258). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $327k
- Net assets
- $-59434
What Three Girls Theatre Company Inc does
Mission
3girlstheatre company develops, promotes and presents new plays by women playwrights.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Reading series - reading series was developed as a merger of the lezwritesbtq and the salon series programs for the sake of resource efficiencies. The salon series supports emerging women playwrights over 40, providing an artistic home for bay area women playwrights at all stages of their creative and professional process. Lezwritesbtq serves lesbian, queer, trans, and gender non-conforming artists and audiences.
$47,813 spent85% of program spendingOther programs: general program: administrative and general program activities.
$5,185 spent9% of program spendingBaker fellowship workshop: a 20 hour workshop offered to select playwrights each year.
$3,157 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,155.
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 2019 to 2020, from $91k to $213k (+134%).
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: 2020 51% · 2022 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Aj Baker
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $41k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY 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
THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY 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
89% 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 THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 30% · 2021 43% · 2022 38% · 2023 34% — 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
67% of THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
82% of THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY 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 $60k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC's revenue fell 32% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY 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 THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC?
- THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,259 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($81,258). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $327,259 in grants to THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $81,258 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THREE GIRLS THEATRE COMPANY INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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