New York · Nonprofit
EMIT THEATRE INC
EMIT THEATRE INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,756 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($33,550). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Emit Theatre Inc does
Mission
The creation and presentation of accessible, immersive theatre performances and workshops in public and educational settings for learners of all kinds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Performed The Witch's Cat at BKOne and El Barrio ArtSpace 10/13/24 and 10/26/24l
$992 spent3% of program spendingAwarded a NYC DOE Arts Partnership Grant in which we facilitated a semester-long playwriting residency at Essex Street Academy for students and professional development workshops on arts integration for educators
$24,860 spent64% of program spendingPerformed our newest mini-immersive production TINY FOREST DREAM at schools throughout New York City 2/2025-5/2025
$10,595 spent27% of program spendingSpring Break Workforce Program in which we employed five students to learn about Emit's unique theatrical style and write their own original short play. 4/12-4/19/2025
$1,972 spent5% of program spending5-day development workshop for a production development by an ensemble of artists around the themes of immigration and belonging. 6/18-6/23/2025
$697 spent2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,116.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $23k to $10k (−57%).
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.
84% of EMIT THEATRE 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. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $22k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 EMIT THEATRE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
EMIT THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 EMIT THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 80% · 2022 55% · 2023 69% — 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
100% of EMIT THEATRE 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. $34k 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.
Against its field
EMIT THEATRE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding EMIT THEATRE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 EMIT THEATRE 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.
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 EMIT THEATRE 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 EMIT THEATRE INC?
- EMIT THEATRE INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,756 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($33,550). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMIT THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $73,756 in grants to EMIT THEATRE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMIT THEATRE INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMIT THEATRE 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 2021–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing