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Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc

Founded in 1972 by 49 off-broadway theatres to serve and promote this industry, the alliance of resident theatres/new york (a.r.t./new york) is the service and advocacy organization for new york city's not-for-profit theatre community and has current membership of over 280 theatres and theatre-related organizations from all five boroughs.

$686k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0170% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$5.5MHealth$75kHuman Services$45kCivil Rights$8kEducation$8kYouth Development$6kOther$2.4M
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $384,850 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $686,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $301,450 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $145k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Arts Pool LLC$100,000
Fractured Atlas$19,150
Brooklyn Youth Company$14,250
One Whale's Tale LLC$13,650
Mass Transit Street Theater Inc$11,000
Grand Pistachio$11,000
Boundless Theatre Company Inc$10,400
Noor Theatre Inc$10,000
Experimental Bitch (c)$10,000
Rooted Theater Company$10,000
NYLaughs Inc$10,000
She NYC Arts Inc$10,000
IRT Theater Inc$10,000
Hypokrit Foundation Inc$9,250
EPIC Theatre Ensemble$9,250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Transforma Theatre: $11k → 17%NYLaughs Inc: $10k → 17%Kaiser's Room Inc: $9k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.3M · 83 repeat orgs$782k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

83 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
48

Total granted

$7.3M
$695k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+7%

Still filing today

80%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PP
    PREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $220k · revenue +63%
  • FT
    Fiji Theater Company Inc dba Ping Chong and Company
    4× · 2017–2023 · $202k · revenue +32%
  • TC
    THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • LM
    LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -30%
  • OC
    Open Channels New York Inc dba Dixon Place
    one grant, 2023 · $67k · revenue -36%
  • NY
    NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +121%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
2
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
3
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
4
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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5
Ghost Road Company

The Ghost Road Company develops original performance pieces employing Ensemble-Devising and collaborative creation techniques creating experimental theatrical works that are highly physical visceral and visual The companys work emphasizes…

Arts & Culture
6
Lively Productions

Lively productions presents new work for the stage by emerging artists, and seeks to create innovative theatrical opportunities in a world increasingly defined by real time interactions and new technologies

Arts & Culture
7
Noveltease Theatre

Noveltease Theatre pays homage to literary burlesque of the late 19th century by combining theatrical adaptations of classic texts with contemporary striptease. Our intention is not to mock, but to productively muddle the "highbrow" art of…

Arts & Culture
8
Nicus Spoon Inc

The production of theater for and with disabled and marginalized artists. also the creation of NY theatrical standards.

Arts & Culture
9
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…

Arts & Culture
10
The Story Theatre

The Story Theatre will pose questions, rather than provide answers. We develop and produce new work that is whimsical, melancholic, mythic in vision, and intimate in scale. We are run by a governing artistic ensemble, who ensures our work…

Arts & Culture
11
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
12
P & J Theater Works
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kunqu Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%6%<5yr15%18%5–10yr21%32%10–20yr22%25%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr9%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr15%8%5–10yr21%23%10–20yr22%34%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr9%4%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/141
the rest of the field
11%
3,927/35,937

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

110 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 110 of the 141 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/110
Grantees still filing
64/110
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center — $279,800 · Arts & CultureARS NOVA THEATER I INC — $260,000 · Arts & CulturePREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC — $220,000 · Arts & CultureFiji Theater Company Inc dba Ping Chong and Company — $202,000 · Arts & CultureSARATOGA INTERNATIONAL THEATER INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC — $200,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureSPANISH THEATRE REPERTORY COMPANY LTD — $186,000 · Arts & Culture+80 more — $3,707,868 · Arts & Culture+80 moreARTS POOL LLC — $897,500 · OtherARTS POOL LLCHARLEM STAGE INC — $200,000 · OtherHARLEM STAGE INCMA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY — $194,000 · OtherMA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE IN…RATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC — $192,000 · OtherRATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INCTHE WORKING THEATRE CO INC — $101,700 · OtherAMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS INC — $87,000 · Other+40 more — $776,470 · Other+40 moreTHEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP — $75,000 · HealthNYLAUGHS INC — $25,650 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMA THEATRE INC — $10,650 · Human ServicesKAISER'S ROOM INC — $8,500 · Human ServicesHOUSES ON THE MOON THEATER COMPANY — $8,150 · Civil RightsActionplay Incorporated — $7,500 · EducationKids Creative Collective Inc — $5,500 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$5,455,668Other$2,448,670Health$75,000Human Services$44,800Civil Rights$8,150Education$7,500Youth Development$5,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center — $279,800 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetARS NOVA THEATER I INC — $260,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC — $220,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetFiji Theater Company Inc dba Ping Chong and Company — $202,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetSARATOGA INTERNATIONAL THEATER INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetHARLEM STAGE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC — $200,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetPERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC — $200,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY — $194,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetRATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC — $192,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetSPANISH THEATRE REPERTORY COMPANY LTD — $186,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetThe Playwrights Realm — $175,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetNew DramatistsInc — $169,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetWOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC — $165,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC — $165,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFOLKSBIENE YIDDISH THEATRE INC — $165,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $165,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC — $144,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP — $144,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetClubbed Thumb Inc — $130,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE BUSHWICK STARR INC — $125,800 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTHEATER ET AL INC DBA THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER — $120,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetJACK ARTS INC — $105,375 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetTHE TANK LTD — $105,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE WORKING THEATRE CO INC — $101,700 over 3y, 10% of budgetBILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC — $101,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS — $100,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBIG DANCE THEATER INC — $93,500 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS INC — $87,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetTheater Labrador Inc dba New Georges — $75,327 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP — $75,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetThe Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc — $74,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetTRUSTY SIDEKICK THEATER COMPANY INC — $70,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetOpen Channels New York Inc dba Dixon Place — $67,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNOOR THEATRE INC — $64,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetTHE MOVEMENT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $62,300 over 3y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNational Queer Theater — $51,500 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetSpiderwoman Theatre Workshop Inc — $48,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetOYE GROUP INC — $47,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetMUSICAL THEATRE FACTORY INC — $47,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetEPIC PLAYERS INC — $45,650 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetBLUELACES THEATER COMPANY INC — $40,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetIRT THEATER INC — $40,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetWNET — $39,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEVIATHAN LAB INC — $38,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetBROKEN BOX MIME THEATER — $32,144 over 5y, 10% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Howard Gilman Fou…The Shubert Foundatio…The Lucille Lortel Fo…Axe-Houghton Foundati…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Andrew W Mellon F…Emma a Sheafer Charit…New England Foundatio…Booth Ferris Foundati…Jerome Foundation IncJohn Golden Fund Inc …The Hyde and Watson F…
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY106.2× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006 · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Jerome Foundation Inc · John Golden Fund Inc Co John Breglio-Paul Weiss Et Al · The Hyde and Watson Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 141 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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