New York · Nonprofit
DRAMA CLUB INC
DRAMA CLUB INC (New York) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,458,469 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $834k
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $752k
What Drama Club Inc does
Mission
Form 990, part iii, line 1 - organization mission drama club, inc. Our mission is to consistently care for youth who are incarcerated and court-involved by creating space for them to thrive, using improv as their guide. Drama club's core values of love, respect, and consistency are reflected in theater-making that promotes positive youth development and deepens social-emotional learning. The organization runs programs at rikers island, horizon, and crossroads juvenile detention centers, as well as alternative-to-detention and post incarceration programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's goals include strengthening the self-concept of youth participants and the ability to apply learned skills to real life circumstances, increasing transformational relationships with mentors and peers, increasing safe spaces for young people to explore healthy risk- taking, increasing institutional buy-in and staff support of arts programming for incarcerated and justice involved youth, and strengthening the field of arts programming through collecting research on mitigating trauma and enhancing healing for justice-involved young people. The organization runs multi-site, multi-program company of improv theatre workshops, classes and performances that serves approximately 500-700 youth annually who are incarcerated, involved or at high risk for involvement with the criminal legal system.
$1,060,874 spent$39,988 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,060,874.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $821k (−33%).
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: 2018 43% · 2019 37% · 2020 19% · 2021 34% · 2022 31% · 2023 38% · 2024 27% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of DRAMA CLUB INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Scott Rabe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $2k → $392k.
9 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 DRAMA CLUB INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
DRAMA CLUB INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
49% 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 DRAMA CLUB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 99% · 2019 61% · 2020 31% · 2021 41% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% — 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
43% of DRAMA CLUB INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
92% of DRAMA CLUB 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. $484k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
DRAMA CLUB INC is better cushioned than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding DRAMA CLUB INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 DRAMA CLUB 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 DRAMA CLUB 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 DRAMA CLUB INC?
- DRAMA CLUB INC (New York) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,458,469 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRAMA CLUB INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $2,458,469 in grants to DRAMA CLUB INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRAMA CLUB INC?
- PINKERTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRAMA CLUB 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 45 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