New York · Nonprofit
NOOR THEATRE INC
NOOR THEATRE INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $703,877 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($320,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $157k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $704k
- Net assets
- $165k
What Noor Theatre Inc does
Mission
Noor Theatre is an OBIE Award winning company with a mission to support, develop and produce the work of theatre artists of Middle Eastern and North African/South West Asian and North African(MENA/SWANA) descent. Founded in 2010, Noor was created to serve these artists in developing their voices and to share their often-unheard stories with a diverse audience. As New York Citys only company with this mission, we provide an important space for MENA/SWANA voices to be heard. In doing so, we encounter negative stereotypes, share nuanced work that reflects the uique perspectives of our artists, and ensure that our communities are represented and celebrated in the larger theatre ecosystem. We are committed to provide an artistic home for artists where they can find support throughout their creative process-from inception through development. We organize our rogramming into three primary categories: commissions & new work development, global exchange, and community-centered events & partners
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Commissioning program: noor theatres commissioning initiative was created in order to help build the canon of work by artists of middle eastern and north african (mena) descent. Play commissions are awarded to playwrights, who embark on a full-length new play development process with noor. Highlight reading series: in fy 25-26, noor produced its 11th annual highlight reading series showcasing new work by artists of mena/swana descent. He works were selected pursuan to a comprehensive open submissions process in spring 2025, and the readings took place in summer and fall 2025 in nyc. Noor also continued to develope another commissioned piece, the 30 names of night, and recording a concept album for the musical fouad of nazareth. Noor is also actively laying the groundwork for possible productions of new placs developed and planning for the next iteration of arab voices global exchange initiative. Community engagements and partnerships: throughout fy25, noor produced various community-centered events, including broadywas first ever mena community night in partnership with roundabout thratre company for its production of englihs by iranian-american playwright sanaz toossi, casual…
$182,574 spent$3,600 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $182,574.
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 2022 to 2023, from $84k to $198k (+136%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 33% · 2023 35% · 2024 24% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of NOOR 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. 3 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
Ariana Sarfarazi
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $62k → $131k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 NOOR THEATRE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
NOOR THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 NOOR THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 53% · 2021 52% · 2022 68% · 2023 62% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of NOOR THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
62% of NOOR THEATRE 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. Of the $270k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $434k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NOOR THEATRE INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NOOR 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NOOR THEATRE INC?
- NOOR THEATRE INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $703,877 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($320,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NOOR THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $703,877 in grants to NOOR THEATRE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOOR THEATRE INC?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOOR 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 17 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