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TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY
TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,040,045 to it, the largest being THE TED SNOWDON FOUNDATION ($181,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $825k
What Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company does
Mission
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Transport Group is a New York-based off-Broadway theatre company that stages new works and radically reimagined revivals by American writers. Co-founded in 2001 by Jack Cummings III and Robyn Hussa, Transport Group is currently led by Cummings as Artistic Director and Denise Dickens as Executive Director. Since our founding, Transport Group has crafted risk-taking, thoughtful, and acclaimed productions of plays and musicals that invite audiences and artists to collaboratively explore what we mean by "American identity." We have produced a total of 37 shows (16 new works and 21 revivals), including 5 commissioned works, 12 world premieres, and 3 New York premieres, featuring work by innovative theater-makers as well as industry luminaries such as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, and Edward Albee.Each year, Transport Group aims to mount two American plays or musicals in mainstage off-Broadway productions. When planning our season, we take into account the scope and scale of each work, always prioritizing artistic integrity and high-quality production values. Each season also includes extensive development processes including readings, developmental labs, workshops,…
$960,573 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $960,573.
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 2023 to 2024, from $343k to $1.1M (+212%).
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 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 10% · 2022 27% · 2023 21% · 2024 9% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY’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. 3 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 broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $79k → $172k.
5 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
30% 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 TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 51% · 2019 37% · 2020 40% · 2021 25% · 2022 36% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
89% of TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY'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. $261k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
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 TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY?
- TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,040,045 to it, the largest being THE TED SNOWDON FOUNDATION ($181,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,040,045 in grants to TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY?
- THE TED SNOWDON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $181,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY 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 34 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