New Mexico · Nonprofit
UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE
UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,366 to it, the largest being JOHN J FRAUTSCHI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($9,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $50k
What Upstart Crows of Sante Fe does
Mission
Upstart Crows of Santa Fe has been organized as an educational theatre group for young people age 11-18 with a focus on understanding and performing the works of William Shakespeare. Our mission is to help Santa Fe youth experience the plays first-hand exploring Shakespeares language and meaning with the help of experienced directors. Studies have shown that engaging with these plays boosts self-reflection and creative thinking. During this last year we have performed over 10 performances of Shakespeares plays including Hamlet Midsummer Nights Dream King Henry IV part 1 as well as 4 workshops. We have reached out to the public school system and have worked with 10 school programs here in Santa Fe and Bernalilo counties. All youth enrolling do not need to audition to be in the program. Approximately 50 different youths were involved during the year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Introduced the Native American community to Shakespeare by having classes at The Santa Fe Indian School. Expanded the interaction between this community and the Anglo and Spanish communities.
$0 spentOur program runs the Youth Shakespeare Festival.Students from 10 Santa Fe Schools participate in two nights of performances at the Scottish Rite Temple. This has had an effect of bringing diverse communities into a common experience.
$0 spentOur base program allows for youth 10-19 to learn valuable life skills through performance. Many lives have been changed through the confidence gained in performing the appreciation of acquiring language skills and having a safe space in the community to share with other youth.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $18k to $49k (+179%).
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.
32% of UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $56 → $3k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE’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
UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216 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
UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE: 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 UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE?
- UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,366 to it, the largest being JOHN J FRAUTSCHI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($9,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,366 in grants to UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE?
- JOHN J FRAUTSCHI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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