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WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC

WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,000 to it, the largest being EDWARD & HELEN BARTLETT FOUNDATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$72k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$47k
Net assets
$27k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Will Rogers Stage Foundation Inc does

Mission

Provide support to the arts

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provided support to the arts at will rogers high school by giving concerts and utilizing the income to purchase equiptment for the programs

    $83,186 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $83,186.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($228k) Expenses 100 ($170k) Net assets 100 ($58k)2024 Revenue 32 ($72k) Expenses 61 ($103k) Net assets 46 ($27k)
20232024
Revenue (32)Expenses (61)Net assets (46)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $66k to $35k (−47%).

$66k
$35k
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

33% of WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$58k
’23
−$31k
’24
4.7
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
1
1

From the IRS filings of WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION 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

WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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 WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.

OK

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 68% between 2023 and 2024.

Operating margin−43% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−68% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC?
WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,000 to it, the largest being EDWARD & HELEN BARTLETT FOUNDATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $47,000 in grants to WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC?
EDWARD & HELEN BARTLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILL ROGERS STAGE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2023–2024), 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