New York · Nonprofit
UP THEATER COMPANY INC
UP THEATER COMPANY INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,400 to it, the largest being LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ($32,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Up Theater Company Inc does
Mission
Theatre and education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
I. All our activities aimed to serve our diverse uptown community. To make our performance more inclusive, we made simultaneous translation for ASL andSpanish available for select performances of our mainstages and select special events. We collaborated with the communities whose spaces we perform in, like Fort Washington Collegiate Church. Our two uptown sister theater organizations are the Pied Piper Theatre and The Peoples Theatre.II. Summer Heat Reading SeriesDuring the summer months, UP chills out with a reading of a classic play in one of our beautiful uptown parks. This year its Nick and Nora Go Off Broadway by Bambi Everson, directed by Kirby Fields.Saturday, July 29 2024 @4pm in Isham Park
$30,300 spent89% of program spendingDead of Winter Reading SeriesLocation: Ft. Washington Collegiate CampusDate(s): January 7, 14, 21, 28 2025Description: On four January evenings, UP presents free, exploratory readings of four new plays in various stages of development. These readings always incorporatetalk-backs between the audience and playwrights. - FLOATING DOWN TO CAMELOT by Steven Satta, directed by Janice Goldberg.A gay love story set on a liberal-arts college campus in the 70's.- WISH BONE by Phoebe Farber, directed by Betsy True. A young woman withbig dreams navigates various factions in her job at a chicken-processing plant.- TUMBLEWEED by Marcus Scott, directed by Dev Bondarin. A young black girlwith hair like a tumbleweed faces various standards of beauty both within andout of her immediate family.- BREAD OF LIFE by Frank Pagliaro, directed by Kirby Fields. An unorthodoxtelling of the story of Christ.
$3,574 spent10% of program spendingOnward & UPward Fundraising GalaLocation: Mamajuanas CafeDate(s): May 15 2025Description: We honor a community member or local business with our UPstandingPerson of the Year Award. The 2024 recipients were Sarin Prabasi & Elias Gurmu, the founders of Buunni Coffee, a local coffee shop that is a haven for local artists.
$241 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,115.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $44k to $30k (−31%).
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.
70% of UP THEATER COMPANY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of UP THEATER 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
UP THEATER COMPANY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
100% 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 UP THEATER COMPANY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 58% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 UP THEATER 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. 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
UP THEATER COMPANY INC has grown faster 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 UP THEATER 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.
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 UP THEATER COMPANY 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 UP THEATER COMPANY INC?
- UP THEATER COMPANY INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,400 to it, the largest being LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ($32,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UP THEATER COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $42,400 in grants to UP THEATER COMPANY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UP THEATER COMPANY INC?
- LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UP THEATER 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 2022–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing