New York · Nonprofit
Dramatic Question Theatre
Dramatic Question Theatre (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,000 to it, the largest being CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($28,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $227
What Dramatic Question Theatre does
Mission
DQTs mission is to develop and present work by BIPoC and Female-identifying writers; concurrentiv. cultivate and maintain a diverse audience who is in routine discourse with them. DQT envisions an American theatre wherein the population of professionally produced playwrights is as diverse as America.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
American Woman Play Development Program: a three month play development program for 15 emerging women and BIPOC playwrights to workshop one person plays exploring the identity and the role of women in the new American environment. With a YouTube presentation of excerpts from chosen pieces as a season end event.
$9,585 spent23% of program spendingClassics in Color: a play development program for up to 15 emerging women and BiPoC playwrights to adapt a work from the Western canon and to adapt the piece to contemporary times characters and significance. A YouTube presentation of excerpts from chosen pieces ends the develpmental season.
$9,585 spent23% of program spendingPlayTime: a play development program for up to 15 emerging women and BiPoC playwrights to develop full length plays of significance to the new American environment addressing topics meaningful to a BiPoC and women facint audience. A Youtube presentation of excerpts from chosen pieces finishes the season.
$9,585 spent23% of program spendingDQT Presents: a two night reading of a new play in development by a woman or BiPoC playwright working with a director and open to the public.
$12,474 spent30% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,229.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars.
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.
98% of Dramatic Question Theatre’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Michael Mejias
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of Dramatic Question Theatre’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
Dramatic Question Theatre leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 67% · 2022 80% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
Dramatic Question Theatre draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Dramatic Question Theatre has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Dramatic Question Theatre
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.
Public support
100%
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 Dramatic Question Theatre: 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 Dramatic Question Theatre?
- Dramatic Question Theatre (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,000 to it, the largest being CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($28,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dramatic Question Theatre have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $44,000 in grants to Dramatic Question Theatre, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dramatic Question Theatre?
- CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $28,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dramatic Question Theatre 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 5 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