New York · Nonprofit
MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE INC
MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,076 to it, the largest being THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $700k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $-8264
What Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance Inc does
Mission
To stimulate, encourage and promote interest in dance, theatrical productions, music and all related cultural art forms for the citizens of roosevelt island.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The main street theatre & dance alliance offers theatre, dance, fitness classes, theatre shows, and comedy & improv for all ages.-theater - from basic stagecraft to more advanced concepts of comedy, drama, and classical theatre. Focus on improvisation, theatre games, team dynamics, creative movement, speech, and vocal production; explore and develop characters through monologues, scene work, and cold readings. Annual production and performance each spring.-dance - students will learn basic, beginning and advanced-beginning classical ballet technique, terms and steps. Students will do barre and center work that develops strength, body alignment, flexibility, gracefulness and musicality. There will be an open class at the end of the session for invited guests. -fitness - a combination of pilates, yoga, alexander technique and core body movements. Designed to correct body alignment. Popular low-impact aerobic workout, combined with free weights & basic floor exercises. Designed for every fitness level. Yoga and zumba is also available.
$532,471 spent$658,153 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $532,471.
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 2019 to 2020, from $24k to $249k (+936%).
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 14% · 2018 13% · 2019 12% · 2020 14% · 2021 15% · 2022 16% · 2023 18% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Kristi Towey
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $578 → $26k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE 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
MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
87% of MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE 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. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE INC has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE 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 MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE 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 MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE INC?
- MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,076 to it, the largest being THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $53,076 in grants to MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE INC?
- THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAIN STREET THEATRE & DANCE ALLIANCE 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 6 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