New York · Nonprofit
TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC
TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,452,716 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($517,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $681k
What Trisha Brown Company Inc does
Mission
See schedule otrisha brown dance company is dedicated to the creation, performance and preservation of the work of trisha brown.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performance & touring - the company performs in our home base of new york city, across the us and internationally. In fy25, the company premiered a new work by choreographer lee serle and visual artist mateo lopez, supported by rolex, at the joyce theater, as part of our nyc season along with trisha brown's "opal loop and "son of gone fishin'". Additionally, the company premiere the evening length concert "dancing with bob: rauschenberg, brown, and cunningham onstage" at american dance festival in june 2025. The company toured internationally to germany, belgium, spain and england in fy25 as well as presented "trisha brown: in plain site" in our home state of ny at manitoga.
$998,176 spent$477,967 earned by the program77% of program spendingEducation - the company conducts dance training in new york andteaching residencies at major universities and academies in the us and abroad. The education department also manages licensing for brown's works, disseminating her choreography by setting works on other professional companies. During fy25, nyc training activities included weekly classes hosted by movement research plus winter & summer intensives taught by company members and alumni and hosted participants from around the world.
$233,261 spent$160,962 earned by the program18% of program spendingArchive - since 2009, the company has undertaken extensive work on our archival holdings, cataloging and preserving thousands of videos, films, and other documentary items. The trisha brown archives have now been placed at the new york public library for the performing arts, the walker art center, the museum of modern art and the tate modern. By placing the archive in this way, we hope to ensure public and scholarly access to this rich collection, and to see these holdings become the source materials for a broad range of expositions, multi-media displays, and other programs that allow people to experience trisha brown's creativity in different ways.
$71,557 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,302,994.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.0M to $450k (−57%).
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 15% · 2018 12% · 2019 12% · 2020 14% · 2021 17% · 2022 28% · 2023 14% · 2024 10% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of TRISHA BROWN COMPANY 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 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.
Chief executive
Kirsten Kapustik
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $143k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 TRISHA BROWN COMPANY 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
TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 82% · 2019 75% · 2020 82% · 2021 61% · 2022 61% · 2023 42% — 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
42% of TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
96% of TRISHA BROWN COMPANY 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. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC 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
Organizations like TRISHA BROWN COMPANY 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC?
- TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,452,716 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($517,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,452,716 in grants to TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $517,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRISHA BROWN COMPANY 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 19 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