New York · Nonprofit
PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC
PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,566 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($115,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $237k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $390k
- Net assets
- $100k
What Pipeline Theatre Company Inc does
Mission
Vision: We believe that an unbridled imagination is a force of magic with the power to provoke a more courageous and compassionate world.Mission: Pipeline makes theater of the imagination. Our company thrives on adventure and believes no story is worth telling without a little risk. We love our villains as much as our heroes, especially in those puzzling moments when we cant quite tell them apart. Above all, we aim to lead you with stories that stick somewhere in your heart, your brain, or your guts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
House of TelescopeIn Pipelines 2023-2024 season, we produced our largest production to date, House of Telescopes by Kairos Looney, featuring a cast of 16 trans, non-binary, and queer artists, bringing an incredibly special piece of work to life at the Mezzanine Theatre at A.R.T./New York from March 22-April 21, 2024.
$337,228 spentof which $63,303 as grants75% of program spendingPlay LabPipeline also celebrated its 11th year of PlayLab, supporting the work of three emerging artists: Minna Lee, Jess I. Valles, and Daniela Gonzalez y Perez.
$112,409 spentof which $33,303 as grants25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $449,637.
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 2021 to 2022, from $134k to $255k (+89%).
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: 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 9% · 2021 26% · 2022 53% · 2023 21% · 2024 23% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY 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.
Board chair
Lindsey Cosgrove
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $18k → $45k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY 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
PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 82% · 2019 55% · 2020 34% · 2021 83% · 2022 34% · 2023 56% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
69% of PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY 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. $85k 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
PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY 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
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY 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 PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC?
- PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,566 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($115,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $389,566 in grants to PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY 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 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