New York · Nonprofit
SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC
SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC (New York) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,713,288 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,400,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $228k
What Soho Repertory Theatre Inc does
Mission
Soho repertory provides radical theater makers with productions of the highest caliber and tailor-made development at key junctures in their artistic practice. We elevate artists as thought leaders and citizens who change the field and society. Artistic autonomy is paramount at soho rep. - we encourage an unmediated connection between artists and audiences to create a springboard for transformation and rich civic life beyond the walls of our small theater.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Soho repertory produces 3 productions each year by radical theater makers at critical junctures in their artistic practice. Tickets are sold to the public at affordable prices, generally 20 to 35 dollars.
$1,910,580 spent$233,413 earned by the program77% of program spendingThe soho repertory writer director lab fosters meaningful collaboration between early career writers and directors. Four writer director pairs generate a new play from scratch under the guidance of established co-chairs. The plays are then presented in a free public reading series.
$92,976 spent$47,500 earned by the program4% of program spendingThrough project number one (pn1), soho rep provides production fees and salaries for all writers, directors, designers, actors, and stage managers that are equivalent to administrative staff salaries and accurately reflect the time that people spend creating work for the theater. The theater also invites artists to be in residence as project number one artists on staff.
$393,750 spent$375,000 earned by the program16% of program spendingSoho repertory commissions and develops new work through the studio program. Highly individualized studio workshops bring new plays palpably closer to production-readiness. Up to four one-week or two-week long studio workshops take place at soho repertoy annually, and typically culminate in free public performances. Soho repertory also commissions up to three new plays each year.
$72,147 spent$32,000 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,469,453.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $890k (−58%).
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 8% · 2020 6% · 2021 22% · 2022 17% · 2023 10% · 2024 2% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Cynthia Flowers
Trustee/executive director
Board chair
Victoria Meakin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $320k → $951k.
16 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
30% 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 SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 39% · 2019 27% · 2020 24% · 2021 51% · 2022 24% · 2023 13% — 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
50% of SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
80% of SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE 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. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $275k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$275k
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 SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC?
- SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC (New York) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,713,288 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,400,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $6,713,288 in grants to SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE 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 57 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