New York · Nonprofit
THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC
THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC (New York) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,207,645 to it, the largest being THE THOMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,600,000). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 107
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Theatre for a New Audience Inc does
Mission
The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. The theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between shakespeare and a provocative range of classical and contemporary playwrights. The theatre has produced over 75 master works of theatre, including 33 of shakepeare's 38 plays alongside other classic works and distinguished contemporary plays.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
THE THEATRES 2024-2025 ARTISTIC SEASONIn 2024-2025, the Theatre celebrated its 46th Season with four thrilling productions: the World Premiere of Ethan Liptons We Are Your Robots, directed by Leigh Silverman and co-produced with Rattlestick Theater; William Shakespeares Henry IV, adapted by Dakin Matthews into one three-act play, directed by Eric Tucker; the Off-Broadway Premiere of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinkas The Swamp Dwellers, directed by Awoye Timpo; and the World Premiere of Taylor Macs Prosperous Fools, directed by Darko Tresnjak and starring Mac. In addition, the Theatres 2022 production of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Arin Arbus and featuring John Douglas Thompson as Shylock, toured to the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. Overall in the 2024-2025 Season, the Theatres productions and programs served a diverse audience of nearly 21,000 people in the New York region and over 14,000 in Edinburgh.ARTS IN EDUCATIONIn the 2024-2025 Season, the Theatre continued its nearly four-decade-long partnership with the New York City Department of Education by providing its two 10-week arts in education programsWorld Theatre Project (WTP) and New Voices Project (NVP) to students and…
$7,091,752 spent$1,621,409 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,091,752.
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 $20M to $24M (+19%).
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 5% · 2018 8% · 2019 3% · 2020 9% · 2021 35% · 2022 31% · 2023 5% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jeffrey Horowitz
Pres/AD/CEO
Board chair
Robert Buckholz
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose $471k → $2.2M.
16 of 107 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 107 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
THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 25% · 2019 14% · 2020 19% · 2021 12% · 2022 28% · 2023 23% — 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
60% of THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
74% of THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE 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. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC is better cushioned than half 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 THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$850k
- National Endowment for the Arts$155k
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 THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Artful Dodgers in Performance · disregarded
- Tfa Holdings LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC?
- THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC (New York) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,207,645 to it, the largest being THE THOMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,600,000). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 107 organizations giving $10,207,645 in grants to THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC?
- THE THOMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE 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 107 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