New York · Nonprofit
THROUGHLINE ARTISTS INC
THROUGHLINE ARTISTS INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,000 to it, the largest being Theodore & Renee Weiler Foundation Inc ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $240k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Throughline Artists Inc does
Mission
To preserve the art of storytelling through film and live theatre by providing opportunities for established professionals to share their experience and knowledge with emerging artists. We are committed to fostering and preserving this art form for future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To preserve the art of storytelling through film and live theatre by providing opportunities for established professionals to share their experience and knowledge with emerging artists. We are committed to fostering and preserving this art form for future generations.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2018 to 2019, from $104k to $60k (−43%).
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.
97% of THROUGHLINE ARTISTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Harry Lipstein
Chair/treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $41k → $47k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 THROUGHLINE ARTISTS 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
THROUGHLINE ARTISTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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 61% · 2018 69% · 2019 41% · 2021 100% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THROUGHLINE ARTISTS 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. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THROUGHLINE ARTISTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THROUGHLINE ARTISTS 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THROUGHLINE ARTISTS 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 THROUGHLINE ARTISTS INC?
- THROUGHLINE ARTISTS INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,000 to it, the largest being Theodore & Renee Weiler Foundation Inc ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THROUGHLINE ARTISTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $240,000 in grants to THROUGHLINE ARTISTS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THROUGHLINE ARTISTS INC?
- Theodore & Renee Weiler Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THROUGHLINE ARTISTS 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 7 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