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TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO

TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,570 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($111,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$581k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$312k
Net assets
$364k
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Tipping Point Theatre Co does

Mission

Professional-level theatre for the community through productions, education, and collaboration

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Professional-level theatre for the community through productions, education and collaboration

    $516,694 spent$580,462 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Instructional program for adults interested in theatre.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $516,694.

02The 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 ($633k) Expenses 100 ($637k) Net assets 100 ($364k)2018 Revenue 118 ($748k) Expenses 106 ($678k) Net assets 120 ($437k)2019 Revenue 107 ($678k) Expenses 108 ($690k) Net assets 107 ($390k)2020 Revenue 88 ($559k) Expenses 90 ($576k) Net assets 102 ($372k)2021 Revenue 84 ($531k) Expenses 32 ($202k) Net assets 194 ($708k)2022 Revenue 73 ($463k) Expenses 85 ($541k) Net assets 171 ($623k)2023 Revenue 55 ($351k) Expenses 91 ($579k) Net assets 109 ($395k)2024 Revenue 103 ($655k) Expenses 92 ($587k) Net assets 129 ($469k)2025 Revenue 92 ($581k) Expenses 108 ($688k) Net assets 100 ($364k)
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Revenue (92)Expenses (108)Net assets (100)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $922k to $656k (−29%).

$741k
$790k
$768k
$803k
$1.0M
$922k
$656k
$711k
$579k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

33% of TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’17
$70k
’18
−$12k
’19
−$18k
’20
$328k
’21
−$78k
’22
−$228k
’23
$68k
’24
−$107k
’25
1.0
months of
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.

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Listed1091011465108
Joined·+0+1+1+0+2+0+5+1
No longer listed·10070103
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $16k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO’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

TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

90% 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 TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO.

36%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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.

Where its funders are

90% of TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO'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 $31k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states.

MI
NY

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

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’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $312k to it.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 24%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO?
TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,570 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($111,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $311,570 in grants to TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $111,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TIPPING POINT THEATRE CO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing