New York · Nonprofit
IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO
IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $772,869 to it, the largest being CULLEN FOUNDATION ($233,893). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Arts Services Initiative of Western New York Inclocalportfolio match
- United Way of Buffalo and Erie Countyshared funderslocal
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio match
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.
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 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 11% · 2020 13% · 2021 17% · 2022 10% · 2023 11% · 2024 14% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $5k → $124k.
2 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO’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
IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 56% · 2019 51% · 2020 70% · 2021 23% · 2022 30% · 2023 32% — 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
62% of IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
100% of IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO'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. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Arts Services Initiative of Western New York Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 32 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Buffalo and Erie Countyshared funderslocalNY · backs 81 organizations that share your funders · funds 146 organizations near you
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Council of Erieportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlotte Cushman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CNY Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- League of Chicago Theatres Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Alliance for Musical Theatre Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Play on Shakespeareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ncrc Community Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Greater Niagara Incshared fundersNY · backs 18 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO?
- IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $772,869 to it, the largest being CULLEN FOUNDATION ($233,893). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $772,869 in grants to IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO?
- CULLEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $233,893 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO 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 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing