New York · Nonprofit
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation Inc does
Programs
Nonprofit theatre services. In connection with producing and presenting Off-Broadway shows, the Theatre has developed significant expertise in both the artistic and administrative aspects of nonprofit theatre. The theatre has leveraged this expertise to provide specialized advice to other nonprofit theatres regarding their programs and management, thereby empowering them to focus on creating and presenting Off-Broadway shows and furthering the Theatres own educational, cultural, and charitable purposes of fostering artists and increasing awareness and appreciation of Off-Broadway.
$226,202 spentNew play/musical development. The Theatre fosters the development of new work through two main initiatives; The Alcove at the Lortel, a commissioning and development program for early and mid-career playwrights; and the 121 Project, a bespoke development program for new musicals.
$416,826 spentProductions of medea of the laundromat and 'the 7th voyage of egan tichy" the theatre produced and presented two off-broadway plays at different manhattan venues while its own theatre housed other productions.
$213,392 spentProduction of dangerous acts. Produced by lucille lortel theatre in partnership with the hampton university department of theatre arts, dangerous acts explores the work of 20th -century african american playwrights. The hour-long program will air on all arts by the wnet group, the community-supported home of new yorks pbs stations.
$135,369 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.9M to $11M (+186%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $18M from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC 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 LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC?
- LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $60,000 in grants to LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION INC?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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