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HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC

HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,512 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($8,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.3M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$1.1M
2/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Herbert Berghof Studio Inc does

Mission

Hb studio, founded in 1945 by herbert berghof and uta hagen, is an artistic home for actors, playwrights and directors at every level of achievement. We provide a haven for working professionals, free from commercial pressures. (continued on schedule o)

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. (a) the uta hagen institute for full time study:all fy25 programs were held in-person.(I) hagen summer intensive: 6-week, 5-day, full-time intensive program focused on uta hagen's approach to acting technique and rehearsal process. 6/23/25 to 8/01/25, 12 students served, 10 scholarships granted.(ii) hagen teachers lab: a five-day intensive full-time program for actors and educators interested in teaching uta hagen's acting exercises and methodology 08/11/25 to 8/15/25, 12 students served, 2 scholarships granted. Travel expenses for 1 uta hagen award recipient were sponsored by the college of fellows of the american theatre.(continued on schedule o)(b) studio classes for training and practice: fall, winter, spring, and summer terms: acting, acting improvisation, acting on camera, scene study, acting technique, movement & the body, musical theater & singing, speaking voice, speech, directing, playwriting, and more. 3231 enrollments, in 272 classes/year, september through august, 1520 students served, 74 scholarships granted, 267 work-study grants. Classes were offered in both online and in-person formats.(c) hb studio special workshops: in addition to the regular term-length studio…

    $1,980,258 spentof which $161,716 as grants$1,750,248 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,980,258.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 98 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 95 ($997k)2019 Revenue 108 ($2.3M) Expenses 111 ($2.3M) Net assets 85 ($899k)2020 Revenue 97 ($2.0M) Expenses 98 ($2.1M) Net assets 83 ($870k)2021 Revenue 110 ($2.3M) Expenses 96 ($2.0M) Net assets 113 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 131 ($2.7M) Expenses 104 ($2.2M) Net assets 155 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 107 ($2.2M) Expenses 121 ($2.6M) Net assets 128 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 110 ($2.3M) Expenses 125 ($2.7M) Net assets 101 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (110)Expenses (125)Net assets (101)Peer revenue range

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 $1.7M to $2.4M (+37%).

$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.7M
$2.4M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 24% · 2022 34% · 2023 6% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

16% of HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$27k
’17
−$60k
’18
−$87k
’19
−$57k
’20
$271k
’21
$521k
’22
−$317k
’23
−$344k
’24
2.1
months of
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.

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Listed1415151514151414
Joined·+2+1+0+1+1+2+1
No longer listed·1102031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50 → $35.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC’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

HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

83% 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 HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC.

33%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

83% of HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from New York funders.

IL
NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $25k to it.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.

Federal$75k
grants $75kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$75k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 15%Fundraising 6%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Hb Playwrights Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC?
HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,512 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($8,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $24,512 in grants to HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO INC?
ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HERBERT BERGHOF STUDIO 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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