New York · Nonprofit
HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS
HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,562,712 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($752,375). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $449k
What HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS does
Mission
Hi-arts is dedicated to advancing urban art by empowering artists to develop bold new works of performance and visual art that create a lasting and positive impact on urban communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hi-arts presents the work of artists from historically marginalized groups while finding creative ways to address issues related to equity and social justice.
$635,876 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $635,876.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $517k to $915k (+77%).
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 28% · 2018 48% · 2019 26% · 2020 18% · 2021 17% · 2022 42% · 2023 32% · 2024 23% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Sarah Keech
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $85k → $361k.
2 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS’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
HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 60% · 2020 39% · 2021 37% · 2022 27% · 2023 28% — 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
56% of HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
91% of HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS'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. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $290k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$290k
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 HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS
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
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS: 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 HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS?
- HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,562,712 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($752,375). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,562,712 in grants to HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $752,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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