Washington · Nonprofit
Youth Theatre Northwest
Youth Theatre Northwest (Washington) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $469,378 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($95,540). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $833k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $469k
- Net assets
- $125k
What Youth Theatre Northwest does
Mission
Nurtures the intellectual, artistic and personal development of children aged 3-18 through drama education, performing opportunities and live theatre experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Theatre Productions: YTNW is a community theatre staging productions with student talent. The productions are suitable for families with young children. Thousands of audience members attended this years mainstage, studio and outreach productions. Programs include; Conservatory Productions(grades 5th - 12th), Non-conservatory Productions (grades 1st-12th), and Productions for Teens. Teen productions include; Chaos Theory, Radio Drama, Summer of Horrors, Student Cabaret and YTN Annex.
$324,080 spent$47,563 earned by the program63% of program spendingOutreach: YTN provides outreach for schools across the Puget Sound area. Out in-class residencies bring books, lessons and topics to life, integrating with curriculum for 1-week and longer. After School Enrichment programs offer creative experiences, from imaginative journeys to acting and musical theatre. Out Show to Go Program brings productions to schools lacking theatre resources.
$36,561 spent$50,972 earned by the program7% of program spendingEducation: YTN provides education in all aspects of theatre arts to hundreds of enrollees age 3-18. Taught by professions teaching artists, our classes dive into creative problem solving, character creation, musical theatre training, imaginative; play, scene and performance training. We offer weekly classes throughout the school year and 1-week to 3-week camps in the summer. These programs are suppoprted with 480 hours by volunteers.
$149,737 spent$336,419 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $510,378.
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 2024 to 2025, from $87k to $332k (+280%).
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 1% · 2019 0% · 2021 8% · 2022 22% · 2023 24% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Youth Theatre Northwest’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Martina Dalton
President/Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $49k.
8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Youth Theatre Northwest’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
Youth Theatre Northwest has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
89% 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 Youth Theatre Northwest.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 76% · 2019 83% · 2020 39% · 2021 42% · 2022 41% · 2023 48% — broadly stable.
“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
20% of Youth Theatre Northwest's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
60% of Youth Theatre Northwest'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. Of the $188k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $281k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Youth Theatre Northwest runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Youth Theatre Northwest
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Youth Theatre Northwest: 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 Youth Theatre Northwest?
- Youth Theatre Northwest (Washington) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $469,378 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($95,540). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Youth Theatre Northwest have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $469,378 in grants to Youth Theatre Northwest, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Youth Theatre Northwest?
- UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $95,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Youth Theatre Northwest find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 16 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