Virginia · Nonprofit
TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC
TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,336 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ($308,020). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $844k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $438k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Traveling Players Ensemble Inc does
Mission
Traveling players ensembles mission is to enhance self expression, self-reliance, problem solving skills, and to heighten appreciation of lifes challenges and beauty by bringing great theatre into the great outdoors. Our goal is to provide an outstanding theatre experience for students that will contribute to their maturity and cultivate a lifelong love of both theatre and the outdoors while meeting rigorous artistic and educational standards
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Traveling players hallmark nationally-awarded summer theatre programs sleepaway camps/residential conservatories at freedom center in leesburg, va and day camps in our studio in tysons, va. We grant generous financial aid to campers based on financial need and dedication.our sleepaway camps/residential conservatories combine linguistically and physically challenging classical theatre with the outdoors. The selected plays provide an excellent framework for teens exploring the gray areas of lifes grand themes love, loyalty, friendship, honor, etc. This allows teens to explore their own value system - exploration that is critical to their sense of identity. The practical skills of the outdoors provide students with a platform of confidence from which to safely explore the ambiguities of acting - and life. Our day camps are specially geared for our youngest campers and designed to expand imagination, confidence, and performance skills while sparking friendships.
$591,780 spentof which $53,900 as grants$562,265 earned by the program76% of program spendingWe offer classes and workshops taught by professional artists/educators all year long. Performance classes present contemporary plays and classic books adapted to the stage. Multi-session classes focus on skill development and conclude with a showcase performance free to the public. Single session classes include auditions, workshops, and seasonal events. Our dd improv classes continue virtually by popular demand. All classes are held in our studio in tysons corner center.
$178,454 spentof which $3,875 as grants$103,375 earned by the program23% of program spendingTraveling players other program offerings include field trips to professional performances, in-schol residencies, private coaching, open mics, our customizable girl scout theatre badge programs, and private parties with theatrical and improv games. Programs and participation vary greatly from year to year. We host the greater washington middle school theatre festival for area middle schools. Free programs include our community conversations imbedded bias in classical literature as well as directing 101.
$7,068 spent$4,794 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $777,302.
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 2020 to 2021, from $184k to $318k (+72%).
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 12% · 2018 9% · 2019 10% · 2020 12% · 2021 15% · 2022 18% · 2023 11% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE 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 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.
Chief executive
Jeanne E Harrison
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $37k → $50k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE 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
TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 85% · 2019 75% · 2020 60% · 2021 62% · 2022 65% · 2023 64% — 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
86% of TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
77% of TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE 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 TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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 TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC?
- TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,336 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ($308,020). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $438,336 in grants to TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC?
- ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $308,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Traveling Players Ensemble →
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 9 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