New York · Nonprofit
ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC
ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,290 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($19,762). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Actors' Equity Foundation Inc does
Mission
To benefit members of the acting profession; increase cooperation among those who work in or on behalf of the theatrical profession; contribute to the advancement of the theatrical profession; and work to improve the state of the theater.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation provides unrestricted grants to support the general operations of not-for-profit theaters and not-for-profit organizations that work to benefit members of the acting profession and improve the state of the theater.
$97,285 spentof which $97,285 as grants49% of program spendingThe foundation grants awards to individuals and organizations that recognize accomplishments in the acting profession and those who contribute to the advancement of the theatrical professions. Current foundation awards include the grant fund east, the paul robeson award, the joseph a. Callaway award, the clarence derwent award, the richard seff award, the roger sturtevant award, the patrick quinn award and the michael mccarty award fund.
$22,725 spentof which $22,725 as grants11% of program spendingThe foundation provides education programming in the form of various career development workshops, both in person and remotely, to individuals of the acting profession. Since the inception of the program we've produced approximately two per year including: master class for musical theatre singing, stage combat workshop, adding tools to your acting toolbox, vocal health seminars, audition stress management. These classes have served several hundred people.
$3,915 spent2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$75,531 spent38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $199,456.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $4.9M (+52%).
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.
58% of ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Alvin Vincent Jr
Director/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $10k → $7k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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: $53k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC’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
ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 85% · 2020 88% · 2021 83% · 2022 81% · 2023 69% — 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.
Where its funders are
74% of ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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
ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 60% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
21%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Actors' Equity Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC: 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 ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC?
- ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,290 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($19,762). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $35,290 in grants to ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $19,762 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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