New York · Nonprofit
RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC
RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,667 to it, the largest being ASCAP FOUNDATION ($21,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $269k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $182k
What Rhinebeck Writers Retreat Inc does
Mission
The mission of rhinebeck writers retreat is to provide a sanctuary for musical theatre writers to develop their musicals in the heart of the hudson valley, and to promote awareness for the creation of this uniquely american art form.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, rhinebeck writers retreat ran two core programs. 1) summer residencies: in june, july, and august we hosted nine sequential weeklong residencies in the hudson valley for nine writing teams to develop new musicals. We cover 100% of their costs including the residency home, travel, food, pianos, writing supplies, and a $550 stipend per writer; pair each team with a peer advisor, or dramaturgical mentor; and provide a $1,000 discretionary writers choice grant to further the development of their musical. We supported 24 residency writers representing a wide range of backgrounds and artistic voices. 2) triple r: in the spring we selected one alumni team for our three-step development incubator that includes, sequentially, a cold table read in nyc, a writing residency upstate, and a professional staged reading back in nyc. Again, we cover 100% of the costs, including all artist fees associated with the readings, offering the writers the care and support to focus on their craft and advance their musical closer to production
$148,439 spent$2,310 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $148,439.
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 2024 to 2025, from $113k to $188k (+67%).
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: 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
104% of RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT 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. 1 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
Molly Mceneny
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $13k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT 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
RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 68%; 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 RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 40% · 2019 46% · 2020 47% · 2021 50% · 2022 91% · 2023 56% — 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.
How long its funders stay
22% of RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
67% of RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT 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. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT 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 RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
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 RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC?
- RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,667 to it, the largest being ASCAP FOUNDATION ($21,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $74,667 in grants to RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT INC?
- ASCAP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RHINEBECK WRITERS RETREAT 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