New York · Nonprofit
PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC INC
PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,020 to it, the largest being HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $129k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Pied Piper Childrens Theatre of NYC Inc does
Mission
Operating a children's theater.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
School year program - the school year program includes four full-scale productions, with two targeted to tweens and teens and two to children ages 6-12 years. Past productions include shrek: the musical, the tempest, the wonderful wizard of oz, charlotte's web, our town, and into the woods, among many other challenging classics. Participation in these productions requires a commitment to attend rehearsals 2-4 times per week (3-16 hours weekly) for the 8-10 week rehearsal and performance schedule.
$129,587 spent98% of program spendingActor's society - the actors' society is a select group of teens deeply dedicated to the theatre who meet monthly and take on leadership roles in the theatre and community. As a theatre, our focus is not only on the performing arts, but also the team building skills that our children learn through the vehicle of theatre. Ppt fundamentally encourages the development of community and the core value of service to the community. The actor's society is formed yearly by application and awarded to teens with recognizable commitment to the theatre and qualities of service and leadership. Actor's society members act in or participate in the production of all four productions throughout the year. They take responsibility for costume and lighting design, mentor younger children, and volunteer as the face of ppt at public events, such as the medieval festival, the little red lighthouse festival, the harvest festival and aids walk nyc.
$2,000 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $131,587.
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 2021 to 2022, from $61k to $44k (−28%).
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.
33% of PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $253.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC 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
PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% 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 PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 64% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
72% of PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC 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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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
PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC INC's revenue grew 23% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
84%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC INC?
- PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,020 to it, the largest being HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $36,020 in grants to PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC INC?
- HISPANIC FEDERATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIED PIPER CHILDRENS THEATRE OF NYC 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 6 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