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IRT THEATER INC

IRT THEATER INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,787 to it, the largest being MOSTLY Z CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($84,738). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$192k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$241k
Net assets
$298k
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Irt Theater Inc does

Mission

Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRTs mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work. IRT supports independent artists through our Artist in Residency Program, and we provide access for Deaf and hard of hearing communities through our ASL Creative Department. ASL Creative provides professional arts opportunities for Deaf and hearing artists to collaborate in creating new work produced by IRT Theater. ASL Creatives education program, Westside Experiment, pairs Deaf and hearing students with a working theater company to educate young artists on how to create theater collaboratively.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. 3B Development Series

    $38,502 spent
    33% of program spending
  2. Westside Experiment

    $38,501 spent
    33% of program spending
  3. ASL Creative

    $38,501 spent
    33% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $115,504.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($85k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2018 Revenue 113 ($96k) Expenses 112 ($96k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2019 Revenue 179 ($151k) Expenses 158 ($135k) Net assets 128 ($76k)2020 Revenue 208 ($176k) Expenses 126 ($108k) Net assets 243 ($144k)2021 Revenue 92 ($78k) Expenses 135 ($115k) Net assets 180 ($107k)2022 Revenue 173 ($146k) Expenses 158 ($135k) Net assets 199 ($118k)2023 Revenue 211 ($179k) Expenses 163 ($139k) Net assets 266 ($158k)2024 Revenue 231 ($196k) Expenses 216 ($184k) Net assets 486 ($288k)2025 Revenue 227 ($192k) Expenses 215 ($184k) Net assets 503 ($298k)
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Revenue (227)Expenses (215)Net assets (503)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $158k to $291k (+84%).

$65k
$59k
$76k
$144k
$107k
$118k
$158k
$291k
$303k
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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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$708
’17
$88
’18
$16k
’19
$68k
’20
−$37k
’21
$11k
’22
$40k
’23
$12k
’24
$9k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $250 → $56k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 IRT THEATER 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

IRT THEATER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

31% 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 IRT THEATER INC.

35%
largest funder
85%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 50% · 2021 42% · 2022 33% · 2023 34% — 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

75% of IRT THEATER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

98% of IRT THEATER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
MD
DE

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

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’20
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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding IRT THEATER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.

Federal$35k
grants $35kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$35k

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.

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds IRT THEATER INC?
IRT THEATER INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,787 to it, the largest being MOSTLY Z CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($84,738). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IRT THEATER INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $240,787 in grants to IRT THEATER INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IRT THEATER INC?
MOSTLY Z CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $84,738 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IRT THEATER 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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