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WORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD

WORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being ONE WORLD FUND ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$127k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 100%
01What it does

What Worcester Shakespeare Company Ltd does

Mission

Shakespeare for education and community

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The organization performs season shakespeare plays for the local community, particularly low income community members. Education and training of student actors and designers.

    $2,520 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,520.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($90k) Expenses 100 ($69k) Net assets 100 ($124k)2018 Revenue 89 ($80k) Expenses 88 ($61k) Net assets 116 ($143k)2020 Revenue 6 ($5k) Expenses 4 ($2k) Net assets 114 ($141k)2021 Revenue 11 ($10k) Expenses 11 ($7k) Net assets 116 ($144k)2022 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 12 ($9k) Net assets 109 ($135k)2023 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 5 ($3k) Net assets 107 ($132k)2024 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 9 ($6k) Net assets 102 ($126k)2025 Revenue 6 ($5k) Expenses 6 ($4k) Net assets 103 ($127k)
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Revenue (6)Expenses (6)Net assets (103)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 2017 to 2018, from $124k to $143k (+16%).

$124k
$143k
$141k
$144k
$135k
$135k
$128k
$130k
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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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’17
$19k
’18
$3k
’20
$3k
’21
−$9k
’22
−$3k
’23
−$6k
’24
$891
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'20
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of WORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD’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 WORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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

WORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−30% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds WORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD?
WORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being ONE WORLD FUND ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to WORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD?
ONE WORLD FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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