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STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING

STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $586,148 to it, the largest being THE PIERRE & TANA MATISSE FOUNDATION INC ($350,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$8.7M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$586k
Net assets
$-3168833
7/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Stella Adler Studio of Acting does

Mission

The studio's mission is to create an environment with the purpose of nurturing theatre artists who value humanity, their own and others, as their first and most precious priority while providing art and education to the greater community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The studio conducts full and part-time programs and offers a wide range of individual workshops for professional and aspiring professionals in new york, ny and los angeles, ca. Students may also study at the studio through new york university's tisch school of the arts bachelor of fine arts program. The studio has an additional robust core of programs that serve the public. The stella adler outreach division provides free program to severely under-served inner-city populations and has a mandate to address the school-to-prison pipeline. The studio's art series activity is aimed at providing world-class cultural programming to the broader public at free or low-cost admissions. This cultural center activity focuses on making high art accessible to the man and woman on the street.

    $8,265,668 spentof which $533,216 as grants$8,639,708 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,265,668.

02The 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 ($7.8M) Expenses 100 ($7.6M)2018 Revenue 103 ($8.0M) Expenses 105 ($8.0M)2019 Revenue 107 ($8.3M) Expenses 112 ($8.5M)2020 Revenue 94 ($7.3M) Expenses 102 ($7.8M)2021 Revenue 97 ($7.5M) Expenses 111 ($8.4M)2022 Revenue 128 ($10.0M) Expenses 116 ($8.8M)2023 Revenue 102 ($7.9M) Expenses 126 ($9.6M)2024 Revenue 113 ($8.7M) Expenses 130 ($9.9M)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (130)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.6M to $19M (+234%).

$2.2M
$3.4M
$5.0M
$5.1M
$3.8M
$5.6M
$19M
$19M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 13% · 2022 18% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$190k
’17
−$807
’18
−$204k
’19
−$488k
’20
−$852k
’21
$1.2M
’22
−$1.6M
’23
−$1.1M
’24
2.8
months of
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

Stephen Dembitzer

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1516131311111110
Joined·+2+0+0+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·1303001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $72k → $127k.

6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING’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

STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

60%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 99% · 2021 81% · 2022 89% · 2023 79% — 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 STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

97% of STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING's grant income comes from New York funders.

MI
NY
CA
DE
DC

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. $61k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.

State$5k
Top programs
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$5k

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 STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 14%Fundraising 3%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING?
STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $586,148 to it, the largest being THE PIERRE & TANA MATISSE FOUNDATION INC ($350,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $586,148 in grants to STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING?
THE PIERRE & TANA MATISSE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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