Minnesota · Nonprofit
YELLOW TREE THEATRE
YELLOW TREE THEATRE (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,004 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($110,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $404k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $290k
- Net assets
- $-100766
What Yellow Tree Theatre does
Mission
Yellow Tree Theatre brings stories to life that ignite passion, inspire laughter and awaken possibility while exploring and celebrating the great complexities of the human spirit. We strive to be a welcoming artistic venue where (continued on schedule o)people of all ages and walks of life can gather to experience authentic community, and to produce high-quality professional productions in the heart of the northwest suburbs of minneapolis, making live theater more accessible to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Theatre productions: Yellow Tree Theatre generally produces four plays per season in its 120 seat theatre. The plays produced in fiscal year 2024 were the rats and the wasp's nest by agatha christie (september 29th-october 29th 2023), every christmas story ever told and then some by john k alverez (december 1st-december 31st 2023), toil and trouble by lauren gunderson(february 2nd - march 3rd, 2024), and once upon a time josephine baker by austene van(june 12-june 30th 2024). The theatre also co-produced two productions with frosted glass creative including the last flapper by william luce(april 5th-14th 2024), and seven keys by charles fraser (may 2nd-may 19th 2024). Yellow Tree Theatre produced the return of it's summer education series, treehouse (july 8th-19th 2024).
$496,946 spent$281,049 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $496,946.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $107k to $21k (−80%).
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: 2023 17% · 2024 19% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of YELLOW TREE THEATRE’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. 3 of the last 3 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 broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $6k → $62k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 YELLOW TREE THEATRE’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
YELLOW TREE THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 YELLOW TREE THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 52% · 2021 34% · 2022 38% · 2023 65% — 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
38% of YELLOW TREE THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
62% of YELLOW TREE THEATRE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
YELLOW TREE THEATRE's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding YELLOW TREE THEATRE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 YELLOW TREE THEATRE
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YELLOW TREE THEATRE: 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 YELLOW TREE THEATRE?
- YELLOW TREE THEATRE (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,004 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($110,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YELLOW TREE THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $290,004 in grants to YELLOW TREE THEATRE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YELLOW TREE THEATRE?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YELLOW TREE THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 14 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