New York · Nonprofit
PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD
PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,447 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($101,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $926k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $383k
- Net assets
- $203k
What Playwrights Preview Production Ltd does
Mission
Urban stages was founded in 1984 by frances hill. In 1986 urban stages began play development programs to nurture playwrights and provide opportunities for artistic growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Each year, urban stages produces approximately three full scale productions at our theatre. Our company is focused on highlighting artists from culturally and economically diverse backrounds. We are committed to providing professional opportunities to up and coming artists. This year we produced full scale show people of the book,the audit, and the american dream. During the holiday season we produced the winter rythms musical series with 100 musical artists.
$180,535 spent$55,888 earned by the program27% of program spendingOur outreach program began with queens library in 1991 and now serves all five boroughs of new yok city, bringing over 1,000 programs annually to libraries and schools. We offer a selection of 66 different programs and workshops, featuring music, dance, poetry, historical biographies and much more. This year we presented the following programs: the legacy of june thirteenth, korean storytelling, art of mime, brainy babies, and many more.
$272,200 spent$302,960 earned by the program40% of program spendingThe urban stages summer theatre camp runs for five weeks. Students from 6th to 8th grades attend classes in acting, story telling improvisation, writing, dance, singing and stage production. Classes run from 9:30am to 5:30pm five days a week. The students showcase the skills they have learned in a culminating performance at the urban stages theatre. The play is conceived, written, designed acted, danced and sung by all the students, who work very hard to bring their vision to life. This year our summer camp was 2 weeks only and we offered free tuition to our campers.
$13,495 spent$8,223 earned by the program2% of program spendingUrban stages theatre is located at 259 west 30th street in manhattan. The theatre is fully handicapped accessible. Facilities include a box office, recently renovated lobby, office space, rehearsal rooms, shop and large dressing rooms. The stage is 20x22 foot proscenium, with seating for 65 patrons. Urban stages rents this facility. (cont)
$212,116 spent$62,533 earned by the program31% of program spending(cont) for $123,000 per year. As part of our mission to to support emerging theatre artists, urban stages rents out the theatre space at a discounted rate to to guest theatre companies, making it affordable to smaller off-broadway production companies.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $678,346.
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.
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 $218k to $126k (−42%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 7% · 2020 10% · 2021 10% · 2022 15% · 2023 14% · 2024 10% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $75k.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD’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
PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
71% 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 PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 53% · 2022 36% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
71% of PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD'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 $111k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $273k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD: 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 PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD?
- PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,447 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($101,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $383,447 in grants to PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $101,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLAYWRIGHTS PREVIEW PRODUCTION LTD 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 11 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