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NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC
NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 224 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,918,844 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,094,805). 144 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 224
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $73M
What New York City Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. Dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and engage audiences with inspiring programming that reflects the eclecticism, energy, and spirit of new york city.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Productions and programmingcity center's 2024-2025 season opened with the fall for dance festival, one of our flagship programs that has launched the season for over 20 years. Renowned for its diverse programming and affordable $30 tickets, fall for dance brings together top dance companies from new york city, across the u.s., and around the world, attracting a broad audience while nurturing new dance lovers. The festival also continues to drive innovation through its commissioning program, which has produced 52 world premieres, 56 u.s. Premieres, and 64 new york city premieres to date. This year's fall for dance included performances by national ballet of ukraine (ukraine), boston ballet, knoname artist roderick george, anne plamondon productions (canada), m.a.d.d. Rhythms, canada's royal winnipeg ballet (canada), a.I.m. By kyle abraham, ccn/aterballetto (italy), dutch national ballet (netherlands), sara mearns and tyler angle, cassandra trenary, and gandini juggling (united kingdom). This year's festival included two world premieres, two us premieres, and four new york premieres, as well as two city center commissions. In program one, american ballet theater's aran bell took the…
$20,306,749 spent$13,940,541 earned by the program81% of program spendingOffice tower and studio rentalstudio and office rental programs are conducted as part of the organization's exempt purpose. City center's three rehearsal studios were rented by hundreds of dancers, choreographers and companies, many of them taking advantage of a subsidized rate of $20 per hour.
$2,293,151 spent$943,514 earned by the program9% of program spendingEducationcity center's education and community engagement (educe) programs are integral to our mission of broadening access to the performing arts in new york city. These initiatives include arts education workshops, residencies, and career development opportunities designed for students, educators, and emerging professionals. Throughout the 2024-2025 school year, city center served schools in all five boroughs and the greater tri-state area. Workshops are typically short, introducing students to a specific art form, such as modern or flamenco dance, while residencies offer more in-depth technical and historical study over several weeks. Both programs culminate in student matinees, where participants watch the techniques they've studied performed live on stage.the student matinee program, a cornerstone of our educational offerings, is designed to make professional performances accessible to all students. For the 2024-2025 season, city center hosted seven student matinees, including two performances by alvin ailey american dance theater, as well performances of dorrance dance, ragtime, urinetown and the flamenco festival. Teachers who bring their students to these performances are…
$1,592,839 spent$231,502 earned by the program6% of program spendingStages I & ii:manhattan theatre club presented several shows on city center's stages I and ii, including the two world premiers vladimir and dakar 2000.
$793,209 spent$577,557 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,985,948.
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 $54M to $72M (+34%).
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: 2017 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 8% · 2020 8% · 2021 16% · 2022 31% · 2023 8% · 2024 6% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% 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.
Chief executive
Michael Rosenberg
President and CEO
Board chair
Richard E Witten
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 56 funders to 96 funders, grant income fell $4.2M → $3.7M.
24 of 224 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 224 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
NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
33% 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 YORK CITY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 25% · 2019 16% · 2020 12% · 2021 14% · 2022 26% · 2023 11% — 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.
How long its funders stay
49% of NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
79% of NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC'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. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $230k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$230k
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 NEW YORK CITY CENTER 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC?
- NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 224 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,918,844 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,094,805). 144 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 224 organizations giving $34,918,844 in grants to NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC, 144 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,094,805 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK CITY CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 224 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing