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PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC

PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $934,417 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($243,750). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$575k
Revenue FY2025
31
Funders on record
$934k
Grants received
$135k
Net assets
18/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%

Against its field

PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($416k) Expenses 100 ($210k) Net assets 100 ($137k)2018 Revenue 143 ($595k) Expenses 308 ($648k) Net assets 61 ($84k)2019 Revenue 199 ($827k) Expenses 348 ($732k) Net assets 130 ($179k)2020 Revenue 141 ($585k) Expenses 285 ($600k) Net assets 119 ($164k)2021 Revenue 93 ($387k) Expenses 166 ($349k) Net assets 146 ($201k)2022 Revenue 124 ($516k) Expenses 267 ($561k) Net assets 114 ($157k)2023 Revenue 119 ($494k) Expenses 310 ($652k) Net assets -1 ($-1289)2024 Revenue 183 ($760k) Expenses 232 ($488k) Net assets 197 ($271k)2025 Revenue 138 ($575k) Expenses 338 ($711k) Net assets 99 ($135k)
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Revenue (138)Expenses (338)Net assets (99)Peer revenue range

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.

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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 6% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 47% · 2022 37% · 2023 15% · 2024 14% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$205k
17
$54k
18
$95k
19
$15k
20
$37k
21
$44k
22
$158k
23
$273k
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$136k
25
1.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $26k → $208k.

6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)32% 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 PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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

PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 58%; 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 PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC.

26%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 44% · 2019 37% · 2020 47% · 2021 61% · 2022 59% · 2023 45%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

43% of PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

78% of PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

IL
MI
NY
NJ
CO
VA
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 31 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.

Federal$85k
grants $85kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$85k

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 PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 15%Fundraising 6%

Governance

15
board members
80%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
GA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROSPECT THEATER 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 PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC?
PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $934,417 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($243,750). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $934,417 in grants to PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC?
THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $243,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROSPECT THEATER 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.

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 31funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing