New York · Nonprofit
NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC
NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $649,949 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($115,800). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $566k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $650k
- Net assets
- $-28403
What New York Classical Theatre Inc does
Mission
New york classical theatre creates and reinvigorates audiences for the theatre by presenting free productions of popular and forgotten classical plays in public spaces throughout new york city. The organization is also committed to developing and producing new plays by living playwrights that enrich and expand our understanding of what defines a classic.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
New york classical theatre creates and reinvigorates audiences for the theatre by presenting free productions of popular and forgotten classical plays in public spaces throughout new york city. We are also committed to developing and producing new plays by living playwrights that enrich and expand our understanding of what defines a classic.
$355,902 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $355,902.
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 $101k to $246k (+143%).
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 31% · 2018 24% · 2019 23% · 2020 33% · 2021 32% · 2022 42% · 2023 23% · 2024 11% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 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.
Board chair
Steven Perlstein
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $41k → $239k.
4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 CLASSICAL THEATRE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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 CLASSICAL THEATRE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
35% 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 CLASSICAL THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 70% · 2019 41% · 2020 30% · 2021 30% · 2022 33% · 2023 45% — 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
31% of NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
61% of NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE 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. $197k 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
NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 CLASSICAL THEATRE 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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE 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 NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC?
- NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $649,949 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($115,800). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $649,949 in grants to NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $115,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE 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 26 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