Florida · Nonprofit
MIAMI NEW DRAMA
MIAMI NEW DRAMA (Florida) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,081,016 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($1,385,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $-32201
What Miami New Drama does
Mission
Miami New Drama is a nonprofit professional theater company based in miami beach, florida, dedicated to the development and production of new theatrical work and to theater-making as a means of social engagement, cultural conversation, and human connection. As the nation's largest bilingual professional theater company, and as the resident company and operator of the historic colony theatre on lincoln road, Miami New Drama creates work that reflects the distinctive multicultural and multilingual character of south florida while contributing new plays and musicals to the american theatrical canon.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the 2024-2025 fiscal year, Miami New Drama presented 135 performances reaching approximately 25,000 audience members. The season marked an important milestone in the company's evolution as an originating theater and launching platform for new work: every production in the mainstage season was developed or commissioned by Miami New Drama. Through this sustained investment in new work, the company brings together leading national and nationally recognized playwrights, directors, designers, actors, musicians, and theater artists to originate ambitious productions in miami beach with the potential for continued life on stages throughout the country. The season included three world premieres. Lincoln road hustle, written by billy corben and harley elias and conceived and directed by artistic director michel hausmann, transformed miami beach's iconic lincoln road into a large-scale immersive theatrical environment, with audiences moving among businesses, storefronts, and public spaces as interconnected stories unfolded simultaneously. The production ran for 10 weeks, bringing thousands to lincoln road and demonstrating mind's commitment to creating work that engages directly with…
$3,738,204 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,738,204.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $596k to $1.9M (+221%).
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: 2018 14% · 2019 16% · 2020 15% · 2021 25% · 2022 38% · 2023 39% · 2024 29% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of MIAMI NEW DRAMA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% 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.
Board chair
David Michael Scharlin
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 18 funders, grant income rose $150k → $968k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 MIAMI NEW DRAMA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
MIAMI NEW DRAMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 MIAMI NEW DRAMA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 62% · 2020 64% · 2021 57% · 2022 34% · 2023 44% — 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
80% of MIAMI NEW DRAMA'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
83% of MIAMI NEW DRAMA's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MIAMI NEW DRAMA has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MIAMI NEW DRAMA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $155k on record — $150k federal, $5k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $5k
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 MIAMI NEW DRAMA
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 MIAMI NEW DRAMA: 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 MIAMI NEW DRAMA?
- MIAMI NEW DRAMA (Florida) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,081,016 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($1,385,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIAMI NEW DRAMA have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $4,081,016 in grants to MIAMI NEW DRAMA, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIAMI NEW DRAMA?
- JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,385,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIAMI NEW DRAMA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 34 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