California · Nonprofit
WE PLAYERS
WE PLAYERS (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $820,064 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($340,700). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $368k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $820k
- Net assets
- $420k
What We Players does
Mission
Connecting people with places through site-integrated theater awakening the senses engaging site history and encouraging curiosity and collaboration.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Alice performance was a jubilant and joyous adventure through a little-known stretch of Golden Gate Park. The audience followed the heroine through the whimsical world of wonderland and heard a bit of wonderland wisdom. The total number for the audience was 1710 people.
$119,468 spent$83,379 earned by the program87% of program spendingPsychopomp was a walk with the gods along the Great Highway. Enter the land of in-between for ritual action as a means of collective healing. It was a celebration of the Great Highway park pilot program where 2 miles of highway were closed to vehicles from Friday through Sunday and transformed into a one of a kind park.
$2,749 spent$2,500 earned by the program2% of program spendingMother Lear is an award-winning play and film about a mother with dementia who communicates with her caretaker daughter using only the text of King Lear as the two struggle with aging love and their own balance of power.
$4,577 spent$1,359 earned by the program3% of program spendingIx Chel Mayan Goddess Our lady of the moon of tides art installation and performance
$7,820 spent6% of program spendingSites and Sounds was a concert and celebration featuring Charlie Gurkes score from the critically acclaimed 2015 production of Ondine at the Sutro.
$2,189 spent$675 earned by the program2% of program spendingSee Clown was a one performer tour de force--a story of self love in a short film. The clown is child-like and ever in the present moment. The clown teaches us about mindfulness and seeing the world as a realm of wonder.
$0 spent$201 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $136,803.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $283k to $396k (+40%).
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: 2020 17% · 2021 19% · 2022 10% · 2023 21% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of WE PLAYERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose $21k → $122k.
10 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 WE PLAYERS’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
WE PLAYERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 WE PLAYERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 59% · 2019 62% · 2020 54% · 2021 45% · 2022 52% · 2023 46% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of WE PLAYERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
90% of WE PLAYERS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $83k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $737k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
WE PLAYERS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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
Organizations like WE PLAYERS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 WE PLAYERS: 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 WE PLAYERS?
- WE PLAYERS (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $820,064 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($340,700). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WE PLAYERS have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $820,064 in grants to WE PLAYERS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WE PLAYERS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $340,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WE PLAYERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 16 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