New York · Nonprofit
BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC
BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,235 to it, the largest being TIGER BARON FOUNDATION INC ($130,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $395k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Big Apple Performing Arts Inc does
Mission
Creating music that transforms lives through artistic excellence and enables the organization to promote social acceptance and equality.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Big apple performing arts (bapa) is home to new york city's gay men's chorus (nycgmc), youth pride chorus (ypc) and tonewall. Founded in 1980, nycgmc is one of the largest and most influential ensembles in the worldwide lbgtq choral movement and an important voice in the nyc arts and lgbtq communities. Founded in 2003, ypc is one of the first lgbtq-identified youth choruses in the us. Founded in 2016, tonewall is an award winning acapella ensemble made up of members of nycgmc. Nycgmc performed virtual choral concerts and produced music videos that were publicly available and shared in the community. Ypc performed virtual concerts to growing audiences and performed virtual outreach appearances. Tonewall also performed virtual concerts and produced music videos that were publicly available. Nycgmc created an associate membership program, opening up virtual membership opportunities to anyone, anywhere, who wanted to sing with nycgmc.
$714,973 spent$494,807 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $714,973.
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.
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 $1.1M to $1.4M (+37%).
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 0% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 50% · 2022 43% · 2023 6% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $23k → $45k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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
BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 59% · 2019 53% · 2020 55% · 2021 50% · 2022 79% · 2023 44% — 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
29% of BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
91% of BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS 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. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- FEDERAL$6k
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 BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS 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 BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,235 to it, the largest being TIGER BARON FOUNDATION INC ($130,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $395,235 in grants to BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- TIGER BARON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG APPLE PERFORMING ARTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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