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ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC

ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,942,813 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($7,530,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.4M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$20M
16/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc does

Mission

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.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. 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. Founded in 1972, a.r.t./new york supports over 410 member theatres in realizing their rich artistic visions and serving their audiences well. Located throughout new york state and the five boroughs of new york city, a.r.t./new york members are the most artistically influential and culturally diverse theatre community in the nation. A.r.t./new york's services include: affordable office, studio, and performance space rentals; professional development workshops; roundtable discussions and field-wide convenings; multi-faceted initiatives to address equity, diversity, inclusion, and access throughout the field; long-term arts consultancies; cash and in-kind grants; low-interest cash flow and real estate loans; research on the field; and advocacy.

    $5,372,852 spentof which $586,300 as grants$2,382,838 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,372,852.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($4.1M) Net assets 100 ($26M)2018 Revenue 40 ($5.6M) Expenses 122 ($5.0M) Net assets 102 ($27M)2019 Revenue 63 ($8.8M) Expenses 130 ($5.3M) Net assets 116 ($30M)2020 Revenue 31 ($4.3M) Expenses 193 ($7.9M) Net assets 101 ($26M)2021 Revenue 26 ($3.6M) Expenses 122 ($5.0M) Net assets 98 ($26M)2022 Revenue 65 ($9.0M) Expenses 174 ($7.2M) Net assets 103 ($27M)2023 Revenue 27 ($3.8M) Expenses 195 ($8.0M) Net assets 87 ($23M)2024 Revenue 30 ($4.2M) Expenses 164 ($6.7M) Net assets 79 ($21M)2025 Revenue 39 ($5.4M) Expenses 158 ($6.5M) Net assets 75 ($20M)
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Revenue (39)Expenses (158)Net assets (75)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $28M to $48M (+69%).

$28M
$29M
$32M
$29M
$28M
$28M
$48M
$45M
$43M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 73% · 2018 24% · 2019 5% · 2020 12% · 2021 16% · 2022 35% · 2023 19% · 2024 11% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

54% of ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$9.8M
’17
$556k
’18
$3.5M
’19
−$3.7M
’20
−$1.4M
’21
$1.8M
’22
−$4.3M
’23
−$2.5M
’24
−$1.1M
’25
1.4
months of
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

Deadria Harrington

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed283333312322201620
Joined·+7+3+7+1+1+1+0+5
No longer listed·23992341
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $31k → $435k.

5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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

ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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

63%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 75% · 2019 86% · 2020 84% · 2021 46% · 2022 70% · 2023 39% — 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

42% of ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

98% of ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

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NY
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CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−20% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.

Federal$160k
grants $160kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 13%Fundraising 4%

Governance

20
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

60%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC?
ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,942,813 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($7,530,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $11,942,813 in grants to ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK INC?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,530,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES NEW YORK 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 23 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