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AURORA PLAYERS INC

AURORA PLAYERS INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,617 to it, the largest being SCOTT BIELER FOUNDATION INC ($64,019). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$105k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$75k
Net assets
$539k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Aurora Players Inc does

Mission

Affordable theate experience for the community including other educational opportunities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Plays that were produced and performed: proof; deathtrap; wrinkle in time; james & the giant peach; christmas at pemberl; and project stage

    $75,050 spent$104,920 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $75,050.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($96k) Expenses 100 ($68k) Net assets 100 ($394k)2018 Revenue 117 ($112k) Expenses 108 ($74k) Net assets 99 ($391k)2019 Revenue 117 ($113k) Expenses 154 ($105k) Net assets 112 ($443k)2020 Revenue 32 ($31k) Expenses 91 ($62k) Net assets 119 ($469k)2021 Revenue 70 ($67k) Expenses 109 ($74k) Net assets 129 ($508k)2022 Revenue 120 ($115k) Expenses 143 ($97k) Net assets 112 ($442k)2023 Revenue 120 ($116k) Expenses 150 ($102k) Net assets 122 ($482k)2024 Revenue 109 ($105k) Expenses 125 ($85k) Net assets 137 ($539k)
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Revenue (109)Expenses (125)Net assets (137)

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 $508k to $442k (−13%).

$394k
$391k
$443k
$469k
$508k
$442k
$482k
$539k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’17
$39k
’18
$8k
’19
−$31k
’20
−$7k
’21
$18k
’22
$14k
’23
$20k
’24
74
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.

2021202220232024
Listed8888
Joined·+4+3+2
No longer listed·432
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $18 → $2k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 AURORA PLAYERS 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

AURORA PLAYERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — 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

97% of AURORA PLAYERS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
RI

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

’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like AURORA PLAYERS 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds AURORA PLAYERS INC?
AURORA PLAYERS INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,617 to it, the largest being SCOTT BIELER FOUNDATION INC ($64,019). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AURORA PLAYERS INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $74,617 in grants to AURORA PLAYERS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AURORA PLAYERS INC?
SCOTT BIELER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $64,019 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AURORA PLAYERS 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 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing