New York · Nonprofit
Tectonic Theater Project Inc
Tectonic Theater Project Inc (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,012,234 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($634,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $704k
What Tectonic Theater Project Inc does
Mission
Tectonic theater project is a developmental company that creates and produces works for the stage that rigorously explore theatrical language and form. Based in new york city, we build plays from the ground up and bring new life to existing scripts on stages across the united states and around the world. Our core values are courage and risk-taking, innovation, theatricality, social & political change, and egalitarianism: everyone has a voice in the creation of new work.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Here There Are Blueberries Written by Founding Artistic Director Moises Kaufman and company member Amanda Gronich. Winner of Theater J's Trish Vradenburg Jewish Play Prize, the world premiere of Here There Are Blueberries was co-produced by Tectonic Theater Project and California's La Jolla Playhouse where the Los Angeles Times named it the "Best of Theater 2022," referring to it as "an impeccable production with symphonic subtlety." The San Diego Union Tribune called the production a "chilling world-premiere - engrossing, unsettling, and deeply moving" while Broadway World exclaimed "Here There Are Blueberries should be staged in every major city in America." The production ran in late summer 2022 at the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre, followed by a May 2023 run at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. In 2024, Here There Are Blueberries ran off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, April 17-June 30, 2024. The production became the highest-grossing production in New York Theatre Workshop's forty-year history. Additionally, Here There Are Blueberries continued offering robust audience engagement thanks to our partnership with Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of…
$856,497 spent$575,051 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $856,497.
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 2023 to 2024, from $322k to $787k (+144%).
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 11% · 2018 10% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 36% · 2022 15% · 2023 7% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of Tectonic Theater Project Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% 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
Matthew Joslyn
Executive director
Board chair
John Hadity
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $122k → $737k.
16 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Tectonic Theater Project Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
Tectonic Theater Project Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
40% 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 Tectonic Theater Project Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 52% · 2019 55% · 2020 30% · 2021 27% · 2022 17% · 2023 15% — 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
58% of Tectonic Theater Project Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
79% of Tectonic Theater Project 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. $2.0M 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
Tectonic Theater Project Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Tectonic Theater Project Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $390k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$390k
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 Tectonic Theater Project 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 3 related entities
- tectonic theater productions llc · disregarded
- Sasha Velour Development LLC · partnership
- Blueberries Development LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Tectonic Theater Project Inc?
- Tectonic Theater Project Inc (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,012,234 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($634,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tectonic Theater Project Inc have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $5,012,234 in grants to Tectonic Theater Project Inc, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tectonic Theater Project Inc?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $634,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tectonic Theater Project 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 52 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