New York · Nonprofit
WINGSPAN ARTS INC
WINGSPAN ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,608 to it, the largest being BYDALE FOUNDATION ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Wingspan Arts Inc does
Mission
To reach out and expose diverse groups, especially young audiences, to all forms of performing, visual, media, and literary arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The wingspan arts summer conservatory provides free, pre-professional theatrical training opportunities to 70 students in 6th through 12th grade each year. By offering tuition-free arts training, the program most fully exemplifies our mission by concentrating on the creative goals and skills of our students, while also emphasizing the importance of commitment and professionalism in the arts. Through a variety of classes led by industry professionals, as well as hands-on rehearsal experience, conservatory students learn the skills required to become accomplished theatre artists and leaders in their field. Wingspan conservatory emphasizes the power of community by bringing young artists together in an inclusive, creative environment. In 20 years, the program has served more than 1,200 students and produced more than 65 productions. Wingspan arts offers the only tuition-free, pre-professional theatre training program in new york city that culminates in full-scale productions.
$48,642 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,642.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.9M to $566k (−71%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 65% · 2022 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of WINGSPAN ARTS 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. 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
Paul Ashley
Executive director
Board chair
Gary Bernstein
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $15k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 WINGSPAN ARTS 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
WINGSPAN ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
WINGSPAN ARTS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $608 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
WINGSPAN ARTS 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
Government funding WINGSPAN ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$80k
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 WINGSPAN ARTS 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
90%
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 WINGSPAN ARTS 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 WINGSPAN ARTS INC?
- WINGSPAN ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,608 to it, the largest being BYDALE FOUNDATION ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WINGSPAN ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $75,608 in grants to WINGSPAN ARTS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WINGSPAN ARTS INC?
- BYDALE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WINGSPAN ARTS 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 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