Indiana · Nonprofit
TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY
TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,413 to it, the largest being SOUTH SHORE ARTS INC ($23,337). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $222k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $66k
What Towle Performing Arts Company does
Mission
Towle Performing Arts Company is established to provide year-round entertainment and theater related educational opportunities to residents in and around hammond, indiana including northwest indiana and the greater chicagoland area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Towle Performing Arts Company provides theater experiences through four regular season productions and a holiday production each year. The community supports the productions through participation in the creation of each production, volunteering at performances and production related processes such as set building or support through ticket purchasing. Towle Performing Arts Company focuses on premiere works, often by local writers to further our connection with our community. During 2025, 3,116 people attended our productions.
$159,720 spent$86,091 earned by the program100% of program spendingTowle Performing Arts Company has an education department, which engages young theater artists ranging in age from 12 - 18 from all over northwest indiana, chicago and the south suburbs of chicago. This program allows these talented and passionate artists to create and discover with a wide range of their peers that cross various social, racial and economically diverse lines. This program produces two full productions a year, as well as provides various educational workshops, classroom performances and various outreach activities. During 2025, 15 young artists participated in the program.
$300 spent$3,165 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $160,020.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $175k to $96k (−46%).
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 55% · 2021 42% · 2022 27% · 2023 30% · 2024 29% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Emily Nelson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $7k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY’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
TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 79% — 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
100% of TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY: 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 TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY?
- TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,413 to it, the largest being SOUTH SHORE ARTS INC ($23,337). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $54,413 in grants to TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY?
- SOUTH SHORE ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,337 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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