New York · Nonprofit
NEW UTILITY INC
NEW UTILITY INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,483 to it, the largest being MID ATLANTIC ARTS INC ($23,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $40k
What New Utility Inc does
Mission
The New Utility Inc. provides cultural dance performances and workshops to engage and inspire the public with hybrid, conceptual movement that challenges perceived limitations and uncovers possibility in the body. The New Utility brings together its choreographer Abby Zbikowski and a diverse set of performers from a vast range of training backgrounds to challenge the orthodoxy of traditional concert dance aesthetics, which are historically sexist, classist, and racist. From this diversity, the New Utility has created a new movement lexicon which triangulates dancing/moving bodies across multiple cultural value systems simultaneously, thus welcoming equally audience members from a range of cultural backgrounds and understandings of dance and movement. By performing, teaching workshops, and engaging in public discussions in a range of venues across multiple communities, the New Utility seeks to enrich the cultural experience of the public through the medium of live dance performance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Performance of Dance Work. We continued our second phase of touring "Radioactive Practice," Abby Z and the New Utility's second evening-length work, in Swarthmore, PA with 1 performance at Lang Performing Arts Center as part of a week residency with the Dance department. We sold out the 150 seats available. We performed 3 shows at the Fusebox Festival April 12-14 in the University of Texas at Austin's B. Iden Payne Theatre for a total audience of 358 people. May 15-18, we performed 4 shows at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN for a total audience of 761 people. We concluded the second phase of the tour in London, UK for the international premiere of the work. One of the cast members was not available to perform abroad in October, so we sought a dancer to replace that role: training him, teaching him the choreography, adjusting and adapting material to showcase his identity, not asking him to impersonate the previous dancer. The development of this dancer totaled 150 hours of rehearsal time, including one-on-one sessions, small groups to learn sections, and finally bringing the whole group together to work as a team. Dance Umbrella presented "Radioactive Practice" at…
$99,888 spent66% of program spendingCreation and Development of Dance Work. Abby Zbikowski and a diverse set of performers from a range of personal and movement backgrounds create layered, nuanced works of live dance performance that grapple with multiple cultural and aesthetic value systems. Utilizing fatigue, struggle, strength of will, and reliance on each other for support, the performers persevere in the brutal and beautiful parameters of the work, as a means of representing the complex dynamics of the world in which we live. By utilizing and combining different dance forms, the New Utility showcases how diversity and inclusivity can create beautiful hybrid movement forms that are greater than any one individual style or type of work. The Irish Modern Dance Theatre commissioned Abby Zbikowski through The New Utility, Inc to create a 30 min work for five dancers in Dublin, Ireland to be premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2024. The commission involved three trips to Dublin in 2024: classes and auditions in March, two weeks of creation in June, two weeks of creation in August, followed immediately by two weeks of performances in Dublin and Cork in September. Three New Utility dancers and the dramaturg…
$51,476 spent34% of program spendingTeaching Workshops. In her classes, Abby Zbikowski utilizes an intercultural approach to the practice of contemporary dance, placing her methods in direct dialogue with the African Diasporic and African forms that have shaped her perspective as a dance-maker and educator, as a means to identify the confluence of aesthetic worlds and cultural information embedded in the practice of contemporary dance. Participants experiment with pushing their bodies past perceived limits of speed, range of motion, strength, coordination, and endurance, as well as challenge their own held views on conventions of established forms. Abby Zbikowski taught masterclasses in conjunction with the company's performances, including two classes of 30 students each on January 24th and 25th at Swarthmore, four days of classes and auditions in Dublin for 15 to 35 dancers March 9-12, a class of 60 at the University to Texas at Austin on April 12th, and a masterclass for 15 on May 14th in Minneapolis. Funds and fees for these workshops are included in the Performance Work grants/allocations and expenses.
$0 spent0% of program spendingPublic Discussions. The New Utility is invested in rigorous conversations in the dance and arts fields regarding ethical cultural practices, inclusivity, diversity, and aesthetic experimentation. The New Utility advocates for live and performance arts in education and as a vital part of the human experience in this world. During the "Radioactive Practice" tour, post-performance discussions are one of the key ways we connect with the public regarding the conceptual underpinnings of the our work. At Swarthmore on January 24th, we held a public screening of the film "Radioactive Practice(2022)" with a 30 minute question and answer with the 30 attendees. At the Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX, we held two post-performance discussions on April 12th and 13th in which about 75 audience members stayed to participate. Abby also participated in a public discussion called "Invisible Borders: Conversation about border and body politics in the work of artists Tania El Khoury and Abby Z" held at an outdoor cafe and moderated by Sanchita Sharma. It was attended by about 50 people, filling the space nicely. On Friday May 17th, another post-performance discussion took place at the Walker Art…
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $151,364.
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 2019 to 2020, from $279 to $70k (+24992%).
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.
56% of NEW UTILITY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of NEW UTILITY 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
NEW UTILITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% 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
77% 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 NEW UTILITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
NEW UTILITY INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
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
NEW UTILITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In New York
Nationally
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Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW UTILITY INC?
- NEW UTILITY INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,483 to it, the largest being MID ATLANTIC ARTS INC ($23,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW UTILITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $85,483 in grants to NEW UTILITY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW UTILITY INC?
- MID ATLANTIC ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW UTILITY 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 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