New York · Nonprofit
THEATRE LAB INC
THEATRE LAB INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,400 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FAIRER CAPITALISM ($126,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $346k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Theatre Lab Inc does
Mission
Since 2006, Theaterlabs mission is to serve New Yorks diverse communities of artists and the general public by presenting and developing new theater works. Theaterlab is a women and artist-led laboratory dedicated to researching the nature of live performance across all disciplines, not only theater. We focus on audience development as a creative project, regarding the theatrical experience as a creative public assembly and the audience as a key partner in fulfilling our mission.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The core of our programming this year included our long standing short residency programs MOTHERS MYTHS MONSTERS, The GALLERY Series dedicated to solo works and the Creation of a new program, FIRST LOOK for never before seen work, to be presented in our newly created space, THE ATELIER. Through these thre programs we engaged over 30 artists and 450 audiences.Through NYSCA's targeted opportunities support, we offered a subsidized rental program for 40 weeks of the 2024 year, during the hours of 10am - 4pm in our Gallery Space. Anyone was able to book the space for $10/hr, first come first serve. Of the 1200 available hours, 862 were booked, providing accessible, clean, and inspiring spaces to the greater NYC artistic community. We served 64 independent organizations with over 500 undred artists. Two artists in residence, cybernetic sculpture MAFE IZAGUIRRE and JOEY MERLO developed their work throughout the year becoming part of our season Poetic Machine. Their performances were free to the public and included post show talks and social gatherings. Through our presenting and co-production program, this year we presented The Mill's The Employees by Olga Ravn and The Hearth's Push…
$252,804 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $252,804.
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 2024 to 2025, from $98k to $32k (−68%).
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: 2021 53% · 2024 35% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of THEATRE LAB INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of THEATRE LAB 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
THEATRE LAB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THEATRE LAB 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. 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 LAB INC has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THEATRE LAB 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THEATRE LAB 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 LAB INC?
- THEATRE LAB INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,400 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FAIRER CAPITALISM ($126,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THEATRE LAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $126,400 in grants to THEATRE LAB INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THEATRE LAB INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR FAIRER CAPITALISM is the largest funder on record, with $126,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEATRE LAB 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 2 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