New York · Nonprofit
NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC
NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,016 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $20M
What National Comedy Center Operator Inc does
Mission
The mission of the national comedy center is to provide education on the comedic arts in the form of commentary and contextualization of its bodies of work, telling the vital story of comedy in america across all eras and genres of the art form. As a non-profit cultural institution, the museum celebrates comedy's great minds and unique voices, while providing an examination of the time-honed creative processes that have elevated comedy to an art.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Maintain and preserve the national comedy center as the united state' congressionally designated cultural institutiion dedicated to present the story of comedy and preserving it heritage for future generations.
$3,260,306 spent$940,602 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe comedy shop. Every purchase supports the non-profit national comedy cetner and its mission of presenting the vital story of comedy in america.
Comedic arts programming. The museum celebrates comedy's great minds and unique voices, while providing an examiniation of the time-hones creative processes that have elevated comedy to the art form.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,260,306.
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 2023 to 2024, from $22M to $20M (−8%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 20% · 2022 0% · 2023 5% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Journey Gunderson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $11.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $17M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Comedy Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR 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
NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k 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
NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $389k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$389k
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 NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Comedy Center Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR 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 NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC?
- NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,016 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $65,016 in grants to NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OPERATOR 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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