New York · Nonprofit
THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC
THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,156,865 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($239,050). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $324k
What The National Alliance for Musical Theatre Inc does
Mission
NAMT is a member service organization with a mission to be a catalyst for nurturing musical theatre development, production, innovation, and collaboration. Our approximately 200 members, located throughout the U.S. and abroad, are some of the leading producers of musical theatre in the world. Our members represent a diverse cross-section of the theatre community and include regional theatres, presenters, higher education groups, developmental organizations, and individual producers, with budgets totaling over $680,000,000. Last season, the NAMT members collectively: - Employed nearly 30,000 administrators and artists - Staged more than 13,000 performances attended by over 5 million people - Entertained over 410,000 loyal subscribers - Provided education programs for half a million students and teachers - Had operating budgets totaling more than $650 million - Performed in 270 venues with a total of 140,000 seats - Performed in 270 venues with a total of 140,000 seats
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
NEW WORKS PROGRAMS Festival of New Musicals: The 36th Annual Festival of New Musicals had a record-breaking attendance of NAMT members and other industry professionals and artists across registrations for Premiere, Select, Access and General passes as well as limited Festival writer Show-Only comp registrations and walk-up registrations. Over 875 attendees from all over the world joined us at New World Stages on October 24th & 25th, a 15% increase in attendance with over 115 more visiting the event than in 2023. New to the Festival programming slate, Fest 2024 featured a new afternoon supplemental event with the Festival Roadtrips, which highlighted member programs at Village Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Red Mountain Theatre & Theater Latt Da. This was well-received, notwithstanding the inherent obstacle of midday programming. Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge for High School Students: The 2024-25 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge, a partnership between NAMT and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), successfully provided high school students with the opportunity to develop and showcase their original musical compositions. Throughout the program, students participated…
$686,008 spentof which $71,250 as grants$130,915 earned by the program64% of program spendingMEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS Conferences: Both educational and inspiring, our national conferences are opportunities for member organizations to interact, collaborate, and share ideas on the latest trends in musical theatre. The 2024 Fall Conference was held in New York, NY on October 22 & 23, 2024, and was entitled "Reboot & Regroup." Maybe the most important musical theatre networking event of the year, the 2024 Fall Conference explored the most pressing issues around new work production and development, as well as the state of the industry more broadly. Just as importantly, it provided a community for leaders of theatres from all over the country and the world to share best practices, brainstorm and support one another. The conference also included networking opportunities, such as a cocktail party and the NAMT Annual Membership Meeting. The 2025 Spring Conference, entitled "Backstage to Box Office: Building Better Branding," was held at Red Mountain Theatre in Birmingham, AL on April 9-11, 2025, where we hosted in-depth sessions on marketing best practices, innovations and the state of the field. In addition to panels, breakouts and speakers, the Spring Conference featured plenty of…
$385,540 spentof which $22,000 as grants$339,599 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,071,548.
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 2020 to 2021, from $499k to $626k (+26%).
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 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 25% · 2022 29% · 2023 17% · 2024 21% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE 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. 6 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.
Chief executive
Betsy King Militello
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $42k → $227k.
2 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE 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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 22% · 2019 39% · 2020 33% · 2021 48% · 2022 21% · 2023 30% — 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
67% of THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% 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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL 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. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC?
- THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,156,865 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($239,050). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,156,865 in grants to THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $239,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL 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.
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 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