New York · Nonprofit
PARK THEATER FOUNDATION INC
PARK THEATER FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,750 to it, the largest being Glens Falls Foundation ($10,125). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Park Theater Foundation Inc does
Mission
Enhancing the quality of life in the glens falls community by providing a venue for quality and affordable entertainment and educational opportunities in the performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The park theater foundation launched its first and second music & technology education programs with the glens falls city school and lake george central school districts. The music & technology program is designed to demonstrate how technological advancements have created the tools we use to make and manipulate music over time. The initial lecture section will connect the current technologies used with historical context and familiar works of art and the following sessions will build upon the general idea as students understand, interpret and analyze the systems at hand in the school auditorium and cafeteria environments and apply their new understanding to work together on a final presentation of what they've learned in the park theater, glens falls and lake george auditoriums and the lake george cafeteria / cafe live setting.
$173,897 spent$53,643 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $173,897.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $75k to $36k (−53%).
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: 2022 25% · 2023 18% · 2024 7% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of PARK THEATER FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 5 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
Christopher Ristau
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $2k.
From the IRS filings of PARK THEATER FOUNDATION 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
PARK THEATER FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 PARK THEATER FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 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
64% of PARK THEATER FOUNDATION 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. 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
PARK THEATER FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters 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 PARK THEATER FOUNDATION 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARK THEATER FOUNDATION 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 PARK THEATER FOUNDATION INC?
- PARK THEATER FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,750 to it, the largest being Glens Falls Foundation ($10,125). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARK THEATER FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $27,750 in grants to PARK THEATER FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARK THEATER FOUNDATION INC?
- Glens Falls Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARK THEATER FOUNDATION 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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