New York · Nonprofit
MOVING THEATER
MOVING THEATER (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,500 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $189k
- Net assets
- $152k
What Moving Theater does
Mission
Multi-disciplinary collaboration in dance, theater, music and other live, time-based arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The creation and development of a new performance, "RUG," co-produced by L'Alliance New York and Gerard & Kelly Foundation. "RUG" will premiere at the Crossing The Line festival in New York City in November 2026.
$14,296 spent$12,438 earned by the program50% of program spendingThe production of new works in installation and sculpture for "Bardo," an exhibition that was free and open to the public for six weeks in 2025 at Marian Goodman Gallery
$6,327 spent$10,543 earned by the program22% of program spendingThe development and production of a new performance and film project, "Saints at a Disco," which launched in March 2026 as public performances at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for an audience of 250 people.
$4,078 spent$27,500 earned by the program14% of program spendingArtist talk at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York City in October 2025 to an audience of 175 people.
$4,100 spent$1,500 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,801.
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 $14k to $164k (+1050%).
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: 2019 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of MOVING THEATER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Clelia Peters
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 MOVING THEATER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
MOVING THEATER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 MOVING THEATER.
“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
74% of MOVING THEATER's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k 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
MOVING THEATER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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
Organizations like MOVING THEATER
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
17% 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 MOVING THEATER: 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 MOVING THEATER?
- MOVING THEATER (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,500 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOVING THEATER have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $188,500 in grants to MOVING THEATER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOVING THEATER?
- ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOVING THEATER 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 8 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