Connecticut · Nonprofit
WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC
WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,982,918 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($924,620). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Near and Far Association Incshared funderslocal
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio match
- Theater League Incportfolio match
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.
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 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 16% · 2021 37% · 2022 18% · 2023 10% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC’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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $333k → $630k.
12 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 funders by total. 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
WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 29% · 2019 18% · 2020 24% · 2021 19% · 2022 18% · 2023 13% — 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
48% of WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 95 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Near and Far Association Incshared funderslocalCT · backs 60 organizations that share your funders · funds 118 organizations near you
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Midwest Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- League of Chicago Theatres Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tw Marian W Ottley-Watertownportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bayless Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cory and Bob Donnalley Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cultural Alliance of York Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Canaan Community Foundation Incshared fundersCT · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- The Tow Foundation Incshared fundersCT · backs 92 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record — $90k federal, $1.4M state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$90k
- State Aid Grants$723k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$708k
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 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Westport's Own LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC?
- WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,982,918 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($924,620). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $5,982,918 in grants to WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $924,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 95funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing