Vermont · Nonprofit
Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc
Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc does
Mission
Inspired by the work and spirit of Shakespeare, we produce theater of excellent artistic quality that enhances the cultural life of Vermont and the region. We achieve our mission through an integrated summer season of training, education, and performance.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Summer production of The Taming of the Shrew performed at Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro, Champlain College in Burlington, and Shelburne Museum in Shelburne with a total of 1,300 in attendance. There were 12 local Vermont artists involved in the project, including two area college students in the cast. We had a paid Internship Program for 8 local students. The students worked closely with the creative team in all aspects of theatrical design (set building, costume design, prop design, and technical design), and worked with the directing and stage management team to implement the show. Participants also worked box office, marketing, company management, community outreach, front of house, and backstage.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2017 to 2018, from $9k to $5k (−44%).
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.
100% of Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of Vermont Shakespeare Festival 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
Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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: 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,675 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,675 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2018
Organizations like Vermont Shakespeare Festival 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 Vermont
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 Vermont Shakespeare Festival 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 Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc?
- Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,000 in grants to Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc?
- The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Vermont Shakespeare Festival Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 2 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