New York · Nonprofit
JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC
JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,260,797 to it, the largest being LUESTHER T MERTZ CHARITABLE TRUST ($12,440,000). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 152
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $59M
What Joyce Theater Foundation Inc does
Mission
To serve and support the art of dance and choreography, promote the richness and variety of the art form in its fullest expression, and enhance the public interest in, and appreciation of, dance and the allied arts of music, design, and theater.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Dance presenting:the joyce presents a diverse roster of artists from around the world and is responsible for financing and managing all services including artistic fees, advertising/promotion and technical costs. In fy25, the joyce presented 21 dance companies over 27 weeks at the joyce theater.
$5,830,105 spent$3,960,838 earned by the program52% of program spendingEngagement assistance:non-profit dance companies and others rent the joyce theater at a highly subsidized weekly rental fee. In fy25, the joyce rented the theater to 14 dance companies and two other companies.
$1,792,328 spent$958,112 earned by the program16% of program spendingProducing, touring, and artist services:choreographers, dancers and musicians are identified and invited to collaborate on dance creation projects. These projects may take from three months to three years culminating with a premiere of the work at the joyce theater with further expectations of touring under the joyce theater productions program. Four creation projects were completed in fy25. Five projects were toured.
$1,320,421 spentof which $47,500 as grants$587,100 earned by the program12% of program spendingEducation and travel studio operationsartist residencies
$2,322,284 spentof which $53,995 as grants$877,086 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,265,138.
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 2023 to 2024, from $60M to $76M (+27%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 6% · 2020 3% · 2021 22% · 2022 22% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Linda Shelton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 70 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $2.3M.
20 of 152 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 152 funders by total. 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
JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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 38% · 2018 33% · 2019 38% · 2020 68% · 2021 59% · 2022 18% · 2023 22% — 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
51% of JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
90% of JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC'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. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 31 funders to 70 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $880k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$880k
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 JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Joyce 306 W 19 LLC · disregarded
- Joyce 287 E 10 LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION 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 JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC?
- JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,260,797 to it, the largest being LUESTHER T MERTZ CHARITABLE TRUST ($12,440,000). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 152 organizations giving $33,260,797 in grants to JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC, 94 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC?
- LUESTHER T MERTZ CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $12,440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION 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.
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 152 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing