Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS
NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,381 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $419k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $454k
- Net assets
- $-22280
What National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts does
Mission
Educational Services
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education instructional provided for professional actor training. Cast productions for professional actor training. Cast productions are seen free of charge to the community.
$398,723 spent$303,867 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $398,723.
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 2020 to 2021, from $37k to $195k (+426%).
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 10% · 2020 15% · 2021 55% · 2022 28% · 2023 4% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $35k → $58k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS’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 CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% 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
44% 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 CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 71% · 2019 41% · 2020 43% · 2021 43% · 2022 69% · 2023 43% — 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.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $646k on record.
- Department of Education$646k
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 CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS: 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 CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS?
- NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,381 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $454,381 in grants to NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 5 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