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THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC

THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC (New York) receives grants from 220 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,760,687 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($3,307,500). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6.7M
Funders on record
220
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
$371k
97/220 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What The Performance Zone Inc does

Mission

Strategically and comprehensively serve the artistic and administrative needs of independent performing artists and companies who work in the fields of dance, theatre, music, text and performance art.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Art based programs help artists create more effective, communicative art from the page to the stage. The field does this thru creative residency opportunities, rehearsal space, peer artistic feedback sessions, and free out of town creative retreats. The field also runs workshops and performance opportunities for local artists.

    $216,491 spent$5,823 earned by the program
    4% of program spending
  2. Career based programs improve their organizational know how and technological savvy. Workshops provide training, consultation services and fiscal sponsorship which assist artists in gathering the resources necessary to develop their artwork and careers as well as provide structures for artists.

    $4,941,047 spentof which $4,220,642 as grants$327,172 earned by the program
    96% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,157,538.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($413k)2018 Revenue 95 ($2.5M) Expenses 91 ($2.6M) Net assets 92 ($379k)2019 Revenue 135 ($3.6M) Expenses 113 ($3.2M) Net assets 196 ($809k)2020 Revenue 157 ($4.2M) Expenses 131 ($3.7M) Net assets 311 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 219 ($5.8M) Expenses 146 ($4.1M) Net assets 729 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 217 ($5.8M) Expenses 277 ($7.8M) Net assets 242 ($998k)2023 Revenue 187 ($5.0M) Expenses 197 ($5.5M) Net assets 106 ($437k)2024 Revenue 254 ($6.7M) Expenses 243 ($6.8M) Net assets 90 ($371k)
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Revenue (254)Expenses (243)Net assets (90)

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 $1.6M to $3.2M (+102%).

$549k
$574k
$887k
$1.6M
$3.2M
$2.3M
$1.4M
$1.1M
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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 4% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$150k
’17
−$34k
’18
$430k
’19
$477k
’20
$1.7M
’21
−$2.0M
’22
−$561k
’23
−$66k
’24
0.7
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.

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Listed68101215161211
Joined·+2+4+2+3+1+0+3
No longer listed·0200044
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 63 funders, grant income rose $356k → $2.7M.

41 of 220 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 PERFORMANCE ZONE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 220 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

THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

48% 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 PERFORMANCE ZONE INC.

19%
largest funder
36%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 20% · 2019 13% · 2020 24% · 2021 30% · 2022 27% · 2023 19% — broadly stable.

“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

30% of THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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

80% of THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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

Government funding THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $277k on record.

Federal$277k
grants $277kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$277k

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 PERFORMANCE ZONE 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 5%Fundraising 3%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 8 states

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
DC
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC?
THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC (New York) receives grants from 220 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,760,687 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($3,307,500). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC have?
IRS filings report 220 organizations giving $17,760,687 in grants to THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC, 97 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,307,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE PERFORMANCE ZONE 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 220 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing