New York · Nonprofit
NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL
NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,362 to it, the largest being DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($175,362). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $355k
- Net assets
- $235k
What Nat'L Asian American Theatre Festival does
Mission
Raise public awareness as to the vitally important contributions that asian american artists make to the fabric of american culture and to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the growing influence of asian americans on many aspects of american life. Based in new york city, the organization serves as a national platform for professional asian american theatre companies or presenters and individual american asian artists from across the country and hosts a biennial national asian american theatre conference and festival.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Raise public awareness as to the vitally important contributions that asian american artists make to the fabric of american culture and to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the growing influence of asian americans on many aspects of american life.
$110,820 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $110,820.
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 $99k to $272k (+174%).
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.
100% of NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $86k → $99k.
From the IRS filings of NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL’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
NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 88% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
92% of NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL'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. 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
NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL?
- NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,362 to it, the largest being DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($175,362). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $355,362 in grants to NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL?
- DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $175,362 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAT'L ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL 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 3 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