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PORT CHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC

PORT CHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$69k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$250
Net assets
$29k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Port Chester Council for the Arts Inc does

Mission

Performances theatre program provide instruction in coordination w/ port chester public schools in the theatre producing some of the highest quality community theatre in westchester county. Students as young as eight step onto the stage, some for the first time, to experience the joy of performing. Teenagers have the opportunity to perform or work on crew for both the teen show and the children's show, learning how to design, build and change sets. Additional productions feature college students and young adults and reunion shows with children's and teen theatre alumni.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

Most of the organization's funding for the aspires program came from the port chester rye union free school district. The funfing for the program was not renewed in the 2023-2024 school budget. The program has been discontinued.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).

  1. Aspire after school program provides a safe & creative after school environment designed to provide post-covid support and to address social, emotional and academic needs. Forty percent of students receive financial aid to attend the program. Program runs concurrently with port chester school calendar.

    $850,539 spent
    93% of program spending
  2. Performances theatre program provide instruction in coordination w/ port chester public schools in the theatre producing some of the highest quality community theatre in westchester county. Students as young as eight step onto the stage, some for the first time, to experience the joy of performing. Teenagers have the opportunity to perform or work on crew for both the teen show and the children's show, learning how to design, build and change sets. Additional productions feature college students and young adults and reunion shows with children's and teen theatre alumni.

    $25,082 spent
    3% of program spending
  3. Arts camp provides half and full day arts and theatre programs for grades k-9.

    $38,537 spent
    4% of program spending
  4. Theatrical performances provides major theatrical productions; 2 to 4 productions w/youths grades k thru college and several productions w/ adults. Recognized by nys dept. Of parks & recreation

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $914,158.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($638k) Expenses 100 ($643k) Net assets 100 ($87k)2018 Revenue 99 ($632k) Expenses 103 ($663k) Net assets 64 ($55k)2019 Revenue 103 ($659k) Expenses 99 ($636k) Net assets 90 ($78k)2020 Revenue 84 ($534k) Expenses 88 ($568k) Net assets 51 ($44k)2021 Revenue 15 ($98k) Expenses 24 ($152k) Net assets 37 ($32k)2022 Revenue 192 ($1.2M) Expenses 156 ($1.0M) Net assets 292 ($253k)2023 Revenue 328 ($2.1M) Expenses 356 ($2.3M) Net assets 61 ($53k)2024 Revenue 153 ($972k) Expenses 150 ($962k) Net assets 115 ($100k)2025 Revenue 11 ($69k) Expenses 22 ($140k) Net assets 33 ($29k)
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Revenue (11)Expenses (22)Net assets (33)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 2021 to 2022, from $37k to $261k (+598%).

$91k
$60k
$82k
$47k
$37k
$261k
$77k
$104k
$32k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of PORT CHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
−$31k
’18
$23k
’19
−$34k
’20
−$54k
’21
$221k
’22
−$201k
’23
$10k
’24
−$72k
’25
1.3
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.

Chief executive

Denise Colangelo

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

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Listed1918161615151515
Joined·+1+1+0+3+0+0+3
No longer listed·2304003
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of PORT CHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS 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.

Where its funders are

PORT CHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.

NJ

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PORT CHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC's revenue fell 89% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−104% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−24% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds PORT CHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC?
PORT CHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PORT CHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $250 in grants to PORT CHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC.
Who is the largest funder of PORT CHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC?
VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PORT CHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC find more funders?
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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 1 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