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NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY

NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $665,801 to it, the largest being JKW FOUNDATION TR UA 092597 ($264,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$245k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$666k
Net assets
$189k
8/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Notch Theatre Company does

Mission

Notch theatre creates community-responsive cultural work to drive change around the pressing issues of our time, offering communities nationwide a platform to tell their stories and be their own change makers.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Collaborate with communities across the nation to tell their real stories on stage, this work raises awareness in a compelling way, personalizes important social issues for people on all sides of a conversation, and drives social change on a national scale.

    $197,459 spentof which $2,000 as grants$3,558 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $197,459.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($118k) Expenses 100 ($44k) Net assets 100 ($76k)2019 Revenue 121 ($143k) Expenses 338 ($150k) Net assets 91 ($70k)2020 Revenue 151 ($179k) Expenses 334 ($148k) Net assets 131 ($100k)2021 Revenue 211 ($250k) Expenses 370 ($164k) Net assets 244 ($186k)2022 Revenue 268 ($317k) Expenses 593 ($262k) Net assets 316 ($241k)2023 Revenue 247 ($292k) Expenses 730 ($323k) Net assets 276 ($211k)2024 Revenue 207 ($245k) Expenses 603 ($267k) Net assets 247 ($189k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (207)Expenses (603)Net assets (247)Peer revenue range

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 $100k to $186k (+85%).

$76k
$70k
$100k
$186k
$251k
$217k
$196k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2022 11% · 2023 29% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$74k
’18
−$7k
’19
$31k
’20
$86k
’21
$55k
’22
−$31k
’23
−$22k
’24
8.7
months of
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

Moira Squire

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed8888
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $150k.

6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY’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

NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37% 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 NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY.

40%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 40% · 2020 61% · 2021 58% · 2022 41% · 2023 67% — 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

40% of NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

81% of NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 12%Fundraising 14%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
DE

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Questions and answers

Who funds NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY?
NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $665,801 to it, the largest being JKW FOUNDATION TR UA 092597 ($264,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $665,801 in grants to NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY?
JKW FOUNDATION TR UA 092597 is the largest funder on record, with $264,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NOTCH THEATRE COMPANY 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 14 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