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ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC
ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,841,290 to it, the largest being WRIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,069,233). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Arts Center and Theatre of Schenectady Inc does
Mission
Through arts and community leadership, proctors will be a catalyst for excellence in education, sustained economic development, and rich civic engagement to enhance the quality of life in the greater capital region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Arts center and theatre of schenectady, inc. ("acts") is a performing arts facility and regional cultural service provider. Its mission: through arts and community leadership, to be a catalyst for excellence in education, sustainable economic development and rich civic engagement, to enhance the quality of life in the greater capital region. From touring broadway productions to intimate concerts, from graduations and spelling bees to the winter farmer's market, proctors is a haven for arts and community events of all kinds, a living room for the region. It provides heating and cooling to most of the downtown block. And it also provides a cultural service platform for other organizations, including ticketing services and administrative functions for neighboring arts organizations.
$20,498,432 spent$20,277,322 earned by the program96% of program spendingFor more than 30 years, proctors has cultivated audiences of all ages through a vibrant arts education program. In 2014, we expanded that initiative to align with the organization's mission and strategic vision under a collaborative school of the arts, one of the most ambitious such departments in the country. The school encompasses proctors, capital repertory theatre and universal preservation hall and serves over 45,000 patrons annually. All programs emphasize collaborations with school districts, artists, arts organizations, and other regional partners, with a special focus on career and workforce training.
$593,410 spent$528,511 earned by the program3% of program spendingProctors designation as manager and operator of public, educational and government access cable television by the city of schenectady in december 2010 spurred the creation of a new broadcast entity, open stage media at proctors (osm). Osm public access is a conduit open to the community. Osm public access is free cable casting designed for local ideas and thoughts on cable television.
$154,247 spent$142,350 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,246,089.
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 2021 to 2022, from $60M to $55M (−8%).
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 8% · 2018 10% · 2019 1% · 2021 61% · 2022 7% · 2023 11% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Philip Morris
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $112k → $215k.
12 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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: $214k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Schenectady Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% 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 ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 32% · 2019 25% · 2020 51% · 2021 82% · 2022 31% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.
“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
39% of ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
97% of ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY 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
93%
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 10 related entities
- American Theatre Manager LLC · disregarded
- American Theatre Troy LLC · disregarded
- Capital Repertory Company · exempt
- 440 State Street · exempt
- Saratoga Springs Universal Preservation Hall · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC?
- ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,841,290 to it, the largest being WRIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,069,233). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,841,290 in grants to ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC?
- WRIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,069,233 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY 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.
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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 38 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