New York · Nonprofit
SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL
SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL (New York) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,899 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ($515,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $477k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Saratoga Springs Universal Preservation Hall does
Mission
To provide and preserve an historic venue for performing arts, cultural, educational, and community events, to promote and enhance the economic vitality of the greater saratoga springs region, and to serve citizens of that region through use of its facilities for appropriate events including private rentals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The purpose of universal preservation hall is to develop and provide for the restoration of an historic venue for performing arts, cultural, educational, and community events, to promote and enhance the economic vitality of the greater saratoga springs region, and to serve citizens of that area.
$347,800 spent$11,475 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $347,800.
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 2018 to 2019, from $6.6M to $13M (+97%).
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: 2018 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 85% · 2022 47% · 2023 17% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL’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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Philip Morris
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $92k → $60k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $35k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Saratoga Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL raised.
From the IRS filings of SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL’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
SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 91% · 2019 54% · 2020 84% · 2021 43% · 2022 23% · 2023 41% — 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
36% of SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
76% of SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL'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 $255k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $828k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL's revenue fell 32% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL
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
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Arts Center & Theatre of Schenectady Inc · exempt
- 440 State Street · exempt
- Capital Repertory Company · exempt
- Uph Saratoga LLC · partnership
- Therep LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL?
- SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL (New York) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,899 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ($515,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,082,899 in grants to SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC is the largest funder on record, with $515,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SARATOGA SPRINGS UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION HALL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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