New York · Nonprofit
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC (New York) receives grants from 329 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,584,390 to it, the largest being THE KAPLEN BROTHERS FUND INC ($5,635,000). 213 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85M
- Funders on record
- 329
- Grants received
- $64M
- Net assets
- $141M
What Roundabout Theatre Company Inc does
Mission
OUR MISSION - Roundabout celebrates the power of theatre by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present, and educating minds for the future. OUR WORK - We produce familiar and lesser-known plays and musicals with the ability to take artistic risk as only a not-for-profit can. We discover talented playwrights and provide them long-term artistic support to contribute to the future of the theatrical canon. We reduce the barriers-financial, physical and cultural-that can inhibit theatergoing. We collaborate with a diverse team of artists to identify programming for consideration. We build transformational education experiences that enhance teacher practice, deepen student learning, and ignite the futures of young people through career training and placement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS: During the 2024-25 season, Roundabout produced five full-scale productions on one of our Broadway stages (the Todd Haimes Theatre, Studio 54, Stephen Sondheim Theatre), Off-Broadway stage (the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre), and Off-Off-Broadway stage (the Black Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre). Our productions and programs reached approximately 500,000 audience and community members. Our production calendar is still not at pre-pandemic levels of programming. Roundabout has been an industry leader in developing and expanding theatre audiences, creating, and implementing outreach and theatre appreciation programs targeted to new audiences. The following are Roundabout's programs and outreach initiatives, through which Roundabout remains committed to a full complement of programs that reduce the barriers-financial, physical and cultural-that can inhibit theatergoing: . Roundabout is committed to serving the broadest possible audience with innovative and large-scale programs that are in step with community needs. Roundabout serves the community by providing affordable tickets to…
$64,021,182 spent$55,573,840 earned by the program90% of program spendingARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT: The 2024-25 season was programmed by Scott Ellis in the second year of his term as Interim Artistic Director. In the Todd Haimes Theatre, we opened the season with a revival of Yellow Face, a comedy by David Henry Hwang, directed by Leigh Silverman, and starring Daniel Dae Kim and Francis Jue. This was the first time the play had been revived since the early 2000's (and its first Broadway production) and earned Francis Jue a Tony Award for Best Performance by and Actor in a Featured Role in a Play. Roundabout next produced in the Haimes Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, English, directed by Knud Adams. This play was originally slated for the Roundabout Underground after appearing in the reading series. That production was postponed due to covid, which lead to a co-production with Atlantic Theater Company in 2022. It is that production that Roundabout finally brought home and mounted on our Broadway stage. We rounded out the Haimes programming with Pirates! The Penzance Musical, a newly conceived version of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance set in New Orleans with a new book by Rupert Holmes and new orchestrations by Joseph Joubert and…
$740,368 spent1% of program spendingEDUCATION: During the 2024-2025 season, Education at Roundabout impacted over 45,000 people. Roundabout Partner Schools are NYC-based and represent all five boroughs. Roundabout's education programs use the stimulating power of the arts to inspire and engage through three core program areas, Teaching and Learning, Career Training, and Community Partnerships. Education at Roundabout's season featured a robust slate of programs, primarily focused on expanding our in-person learning and programming. We facilitated in-school classroom residencies, school-wide partnerships, and professional development workshops for teachers. We continued to host our free after-school program, Roundabout Youth Ensemble, while welcoming a new cohort in our technical theatre skills training program, the Theatrical Workforce Development Program (TWDP). Additionally, we grew and further defined our Community Partnership programming with the New York Public Library. Below is an overview of the programs: TEACHING AND LEARNING . Professional Development at Roundabout offers a variety of workshops to enhance each educator's ability to use theatre as an effective teaching tool in the classroom. These workshops…
$6,000,208 spent$346,768 earned by the program8% of program spendingRoundabout archives:
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preserves the artistic and
institutional output of the company
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$459,224 spent1% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $71,220,982.
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 2020 to 2021, from $142M to $173M (+22%).
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 3% · 2018 6% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 36% · 2022 28% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Katheryn Patterson Kempner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 89 funders to 128 funders, grant income rose $3.9M → $9.8M.
28 of 329 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 329 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
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
32% 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 ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 17% · 2019 10% · 2020 13% · 2021 15% · 2022 14% · 2023 23% — 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
42% of ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
54% of ROUNDABOUT 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. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC's funding base is broadening — from 89 funders to 128 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $375k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$375k
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 ROUNDABOUT 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 22 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Roundabout Theatre Company productions · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC?
- ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC (New York) receives grants from 329 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,584,390 to it, the largest being THE KAPLEN BROTHERS FUND INC ($5,635,000). 213 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 329 organizations giving $63,584,390 in grants to ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC, 213 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC?
- THE KAPLEN BROTHERS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,635,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROUNDABOUT 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 329 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing