Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY
WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,654 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($140,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $356k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Washington Improvisational Theater Company does
Mission
Wits mission is to unleash the creative power of improv in washington, dc. We engage audiences with performances that exhilarate and inspire. We ignite the spirit of play in washington with a revolutionary training program for individuals and organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Shared the creative, collaborative craft of improvisation with 1,067 enrolled students and 540 free workshop attendees.
$347,548 spent$368,751 earned by the program41% of program spendingEngaged over 12,881 audience members with a wide range of over 276 improvised comedy theater performances.
$379,907 spent$279,793 earned by the program44% of program spendingEngaged 1,382 participants in applied improv workshops for workplace and organization clients in 53 engagements
$126,595 spent$77,440 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $854,050.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $936k to $1.3M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 12% · 2019 9% · 2020 22% · 2021 41% · 2022 67% · 2023 30% · 2024 25% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Mark Chalfant
Artistic executive director
Board chair
Nikki Rogers
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50 → $16k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER 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
WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 76% · 2023 97% — 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
25% of WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
94% of WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k 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.
Government funding WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- Department of Justice$4k
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 WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER 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 WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY?
- WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,654 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($140,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $355,654 in grants to WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY?
- THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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