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MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD

MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,406,798 to it, the largest being THE EMILY DAVIE AND JOSEPH S KORNFELD FOUNDATION ($415,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$2.9M
12/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Marquis Studios Ltd does

Mission

Providing arts in education services, including promoting of the art of puppetry, to thousands of school children in nys, primarily through contracts with nyc board of ed.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing arts in education services, including promoting of the art of puppetry, to thousands of school children in nys, primarily through contracts with nyc board of ed. The organization has provided approximately 400 school programs that have reached over 25,000 students in more than 140 nyc public schools.

    $2,494,379 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,494,379.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($864k)2018 Revenue 122 ($3.6M) Expenses 118 ($3.3M) Net assets 132 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 126 ($3.7M) Expenses 125 ($3.5M) Net assets 155 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 95 ($2.8M) Expenses 98 ($2.8M) Net assets 161 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 91 ($2.7M) Expenses 74 ($2.1M) Net assets 230 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 110 ($3.3M) Expenses 109 ($3.1M) Net assets 251 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 104 ($3.1M) Expenses 105 ($3.0M) Net assets 263 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 107 ($3.1M) Expenses 110 ($3.1M) Net assets 267 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 125 ($3.7M) Expenses 110 ($3.1M) Net assets 336 ($2.9M)
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Revenue (125)Expenses (110)Net assets (336)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.3M to $2.1M (+66%).

$974k
$1.3M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.2M
$2.4M
$2.6M
$2.5M
$3.0M
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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.

2017
2018
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2020
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2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 23% · 2018 29% · 2019 32% · 2020 52% · 2021 65% · 2022 36% · 2023 33% · 2024 34% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

54% of MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$130k
’17
$276k
’18
$202k
’19
$47k
’20
$597k
’21
$182k
’22
$104k
’23
$34k
’24
$598k
’25
6.3
months of
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

Claudia Cantrella

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed786678898
Joined·+3+1+0+1+1+2+3+1
No longer listed·23000222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $39k → $384k.

6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD’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

MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

49% 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 MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD.

29%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 82% · 2019 48% · 2020 50% · 2021 57% · 2022 59% · 2023 69% — 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

70% of MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD's grant income comes from New York funders.

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NJ
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NC
TX

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $358k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Against its field

MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve6.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $308k on record.

Federal$308k
grants $308kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$308k

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 MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD

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

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 12%Fundraising 7%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD?
MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,406,798 to it, the largest being THE EMILY DAVIE AND JOSEPH S KORNFELD FOUNDATION ($415,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,406,798 in grants to MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD?
THE EMILY DAVIE AND JOSEPH S KORNFELD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $415,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD 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 18 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