New York · Nonprofit
CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY
CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY (New York) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,090,023 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($906,560). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $533k
What Csc Repertory Ltd D/B/A Classic Stage Company does
Mission
Classic stage company (csc) challenges the traditional perception of classic work by exploring and reimagining great stories across the world's repertoire that illuminate our common humanity. As a home for the classics, we collaborate with artists to produce work that is inclusive, relevant and accessible. We believe that theater can both reflect and improve our society by reaching across cultural divides in order to foster shared empathy and understanding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wine in the wilderness - fortune has smiled on artist bill jameson (grantham coleman) his friends just introduced him to a model for the final piece of his triptych on black womanhood. But this woman, tomorrow marie (olivia washington), is no mere muse, and she's about to give bill much more than he bargained for. Set against the backdrop of the 1964 harlem riot on a hot summer night, wine in the wilderness is a rarely-seen play from the brilliant mind of alice childress, whose trouble in mind recently took broadway by storm. That production's star, tony winner lachanze, brings her deep connection to childress's work to her new york directing debut.
$533,160 spent$314,636 earned by the program26% of program spendingBus stop - on a snowy night in kansas, a diner can be an oasis, a prison, a place to hide, or a place to discover yourself. When a bus is forced to take shelter from stormy weather outside, a mismatched group of dreamers and cowboys, waitresses and outcasts find unexpected warmth in one another. In william inge's 1955 classic, this great playwright of the midwest gives voice to memorable characters who'll linger like the perfect cup of diner coffee. Co-produced with naatco and the transport group.
$525,139 spent$514,659 earned by the program25% of program spendingRediscovery readings - in our 2024-25 season, csc will shine a light on american women who were writing the classics of the early 20th century but whose legacies have been muted by time. Join us for four playreadings that will take you from 1900 through the 1950s, all leading up to csc's much-anticipated production of wine in the wilderness by alice childress, in which the women of the 1960s have their say!
$47,679 spent$27,450 earned by the program2% of program spendingCsc education programs for students, educators and audiences
$964,225 spent$257,311 earned by the program47% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,070,203.
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 2022 to 2023, from $834k to $2.0M (+135%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 13% · 2022 29% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Jill Rafson
President and CEO
Board chair
Emma Taylor
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $225k → $1.0M.
18 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% 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 CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 28% · 2019 56% · 2020 33% · 2021 40% · 2022 19% · 2023 28% — 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
43% of CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
81% of CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY'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. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE 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.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE 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 CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY?
- CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY (New York) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,090,023 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($906,560). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $5,090,023 in grants to CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $906,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 87 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