New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY
AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,148 to it, the largest being MAKE A DIFFERENCE FUND ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $19k
What American Bard Theater Company does
Mission
To entertain and educate the general community through the production of plays and theatrical workshops
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Produced the play "Pecking Order" in January, 2025 at 59E59 Theaters, 480 people attended
$42,061 spentof which $3,000 as grants89% of program spendingConducted three pre-production internal workshops August through October 2024 to refine the story and script for "Pecking Order."
$4,238 spent9% of program spendingConducted a workshop for the play "The Machine," in November 2024 which is a forerunner to our election process for the next full-scale stage play production.
$1,133 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,432.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $9k to $38k (+316%).
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.
68% of AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $24.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY’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
AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY: 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 AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY?
- AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,148 to it, the largest being MAKE A DIFFERENCE FUND ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,148 in grants to AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY?
- MAKE A DIFFERENCE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN BARD THEATER COMPANY 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.
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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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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