Texas · Nonprofit
ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER
ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,085,047 to it, the largest being The Moody Foundation ($450,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Donald D Hammill Foundationshared funderslocal
- Theater League Incportfolio match
- Scottsdale League for the Artsportfolio match
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.
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 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 48% · 2022 30% · 2023 7% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER’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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $189k → $526k.
10 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Austin Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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
ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
42% 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 ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 25% · 2019 51% · 2020 39% · 2021 27% · 2022 24% · 2023 19% — 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
45% of ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
67% of ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 52 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Donald D Hammill Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · funds 58 organizations near you
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scottsdale League for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Theatre Wing Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roy Cockrum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laurentshatcher Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Play on Shakespeareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fichtenbaum Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Trshared funderslocalTX · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you
- The Bill M and Cecile Autrey Ham Charitable Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- St David's Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 111 organizations that share your funders · funds 233 organizations near you
- United Way for Greater Austinshared funderslocalTX · backs 91 organizations that share your funders · funds 172 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
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 ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER?
- ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,085,047 to it, the largest being The Moody Foundation ($450,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $3,085,047 in grants to ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER?
- The Moody Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 52funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing