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THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC

THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,101,351 to it, the largest being NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ($657,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$447k
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$437k
16/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Inc does

Mission

Tonyc works through partnerships with social service organizations and city agencies to create theatre troupes with community members who face pressing social, economic, health, and human rights injustices.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Theatre of the oppressed is an interactive, physical and playful tool used to showcase discrimination. Community actors, directors, playwrights, designers, and producers create plays inspired by real life struggles.

    $587,002 spent$53,016 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $587,002.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($680k) Expenses 100 ($564k) Net assets 100 ($271k)2020 Revenue 115 ($783k) Expenses 158 ($891k) Net assets 255 ($691k)2021 Revenue 118 ($805k) Expenses 142 ($800k) Net assets 257 ($696k)2022 Revenue 107 ($728k) Expenses 142 ($803k) Net assets 229 ($621k)2023 Revenue 135 ($920k) Expenses 150 ($846k) Net assets 257 ($695k)2024 Revenue 66 ($447k) Expenses 125 ($705k) Net assets 161 ($437k)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (66)Expenses (125)Net assets (161)Peer revenue range

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 $751k to $570k (−24%).

$370k
$838k
$744k
$666k
$751k
$570k
201720202021202220232024
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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 15% · 2020 11% · 2021 62% · 2022 24% · 2023 29% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$116k
’17
−$108k
’20
$5k
’21
−$75k
’22
$74k
’23
−$258k
’24
2.4
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.

Chief executive

Sulu Leonimm

Executive director

Board chair

Josh Van Kirk

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201720202021202220232024
Listed1198121013
Joined··+0+6+0+5
No longer listed··1222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $121k → $378k.

3 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 OF THE OPPRESSED NYC 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 OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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

54% 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 THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC.

31%
largest funder
55%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 37% · 2019 39% · 2020 22% · 2021 40% · 2022 34% · 2023 41% — 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

39% of THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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

91% of THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

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NY
MD
DC
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. $205k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−58% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $220k on record.

Federal$220k
grants $220kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$220k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 23%Fundraising 10%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

70%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC?
THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,101,351 to it, the largest being NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ($657,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,101,351 in grants to THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC?
NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $657,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC 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 25 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