Illinois · Nonprofit
WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY
WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,547 to it, the largest being GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION ($24,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $25k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Walkabout Theatre Company does
Mission
Present live theatre
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Wender Collective advanced its exempt purpose by producing, promoting, and presenting a diverse range of live theatrical performances that engaged audiences across multiple communities. The organization prioritized creative collaboration, artistic excellence, and equitable access to the arts.
$16,247 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,247.
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 $25k to $40k (+60%).
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.
0% of WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $18.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WALKABOUT THEATRE 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
WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 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
58% of WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47 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
WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like WALKABOUT THEATRE 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 Illinois
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 WALKABOUT THEATRE 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 WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY?
- WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,547 to it, the largest being GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION ($24,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $42,547 in grants to WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY?
- GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALKABOUT THEATRE COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing