New York · Nonprofit
THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC
THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,156 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($150,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $397k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $432k
- Net assets
- $65k
What The Actors Theatre Workshop Inc does
Mission
The actors theatre workshop is a non-profit theater and its activities include professional theater training, play development and readings, and community programs that use theater to engage housing insecure children and other marginalized communities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Atw is a non-profit theatre and educational institution that teaches innovative educational techniques and theatre principles to adults and children from all walks of life. Atw teaches award-winning theatre and education programs for children living in new york city transitional housing facilities - the builders of the new world.
$310,515 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $310,515.
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 $316k to $1.2M (+286%).
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 2% · 2018 0% · 2020 11% · 2021 9% · 2022 15% · 2023 22% · 2024 14% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Carlos Lopez
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $32k → $47k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC’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
THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 50% · 2019 70% · 2020 67% · 2021 66% · 2022 100% · 2023 53% — 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
38% of THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
59% of THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC'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 $179k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $253k 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
THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC's revenue grew 56% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
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 THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC?
- THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,156 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($150,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $432,156 in grants to THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC?
- RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP 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 13 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