New Jersey · Nonprofit
INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC
INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,800 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($27,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $859
What Inner City Ensemble Inc does
Mission
The arts nonprofit offers free dance and theatre training and shows to hundreds local children and teenagers in Paterson, NJ and low-cost events and presentations to the community. Our focus is on Arts, Cultural, Education, Shows & Outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
High School and Middle School programs and Professional Development, employing 2 teaching artists and offering free school presentations to underserved residents in the community.
$15,612 spent29% of program spendingChoreography Workshops/Commissions
$22,200 spent41% of program spendingDual Language Program for Spanish-speaking newcomers employing 4 teaching artists and offering free school presentations to student body, teachers/staff, parents and friends.
$16,050 spent30% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $53,862.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $24k to $859 (−96%).
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: 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC’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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $27k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 INNER CITY ENSEMBLE 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
INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 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
65% of INNER CITY ENSEMBLE 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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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
INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC's revenue fell 60% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like INNER CITY ENSEMBLE 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 INNER CITY ENSEMBLE 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 INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC?
- INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,800 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($27,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $41,800 in grants to INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC?
- Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $27,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INNER CITY ENSEMBLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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