Virginia · Nonprofit
Williamsburg Players Inc
Williamsburg Players Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $111 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($111). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $397k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $111
- Net assets
- $827k
What Williamsburg Players Inc does
Mission
To provide a community theatre committed to enriching and broadening the cultural life and experience of the Greater Tidewater community. To present professional-quality theatre productions that challenge, stimulate, and entertain our audiences, patrons, and volunteers. Hands-on learning and scholarship programs provide opportunities for education, experience, personal growth, and challenge.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To enrich and broaden the cultural life and experience of the greater Tidewater community by presenting professional quality theatre productions which challenge, stimulate, educate, and entertain our audiences, members, and volunteers.
$118,797 spent98% of program spendingTo provide $1,000 scholarships to college students who have a related "arts" major. The applicants must be local high school seniors who plan to go to college and major in some aspect of theatre or dance. This includes acting, lighting design, scene design, directing, etc. The students are asked to make an application to our scholarship committee during the last half of their senior year. In addition to the applicaton, an audition or display of owkr already done is asked for, depending upon the field of study they are planning to pursue.
$3,000 spentof which $3,000 as grants2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $121,797.
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 $2.3M to $2.2M (−5%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 43% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of Williamsburg Players Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $21 → $25.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Williamsburg Players 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Williamsburg Players Inc'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111 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
Williamsburg Players Inc's revenue grew 47% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Williamsburg Players Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 Williamsburg Players Inc
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Williamsburg Players 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Williamsburg Players Inc?
- Williamsburg Players Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $111 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($111). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Williamsburg Players Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $111 in grants to Williamsburg Players Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Williamsburg Players Inc?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $111 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Williamsburg Players Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 1 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