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MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY
MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,267,378 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($870,900). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble Inc Dba Ma-Yi Theater Company does
Mission
To develop and produce new and innovative plays by Asian American writers. Since its founding, Ma-Yi has distinguished itself as one of the country's leading incubators of new work shaping the national discourse about what it means to be asian american today.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ma-Yi Theater Company's core activities include producing two to three mainstage productions, and supporting the year-round activities of the Writers Lab which includes workshops, readings, and retreats. Other activities include commuity outreach through free public reading and youth workshops.
$1,048,983 spent$311,964 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,048,983.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $2.0M (+48%).
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 7% · 2018 17% · 2020 10% · 2021 25% · 2022 32% · 2023 23% · 2024 17% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
William A Cook
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $212k → $348k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY’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
MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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 61% · 2018 53% · 2019 92% · 2020 66% · 2021 30% · 2022 51% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
89% of MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY'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. $202k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $270k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$270k
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 MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY?
- MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,267,378 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($870,900). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $3,267,378 in grants to MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $870,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MA-YI FILIPINO THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC DBA MA-YI THEATER COMPANY 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 28 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