Center for the Arts at Ithaca Inc

What it says it does

“A commitment to provide exceptional theatre experiences of high professional quality to enrich, enlighten, educate, and entertain the diverse audience in the finger lakes region and beyond. Strong education and training programs are central parts of our commitment to the local and national artistic communities.”From the organization's Form 990 for the year ending Dec 2023, as written (including spelling); all-capital text shown in normal capitalization.

Center for the Arts at Ithaca Inc finances

From the annual returns the group files with the IRS (Form 990, or the shorter Form 990-EZ for smaller groups), 2 filed years. Net assets are what it owns minus what it owes; management and general is office, admin and insurance cost. A dash means not reported (the short form does not ask for employees or volunteers). Each figure links to that year's return. A year is left out when no return is in the IRS e-file data; that does not mean the group was inactive.

Where the money goes, year ending Dec 2023

• Programs $735,683 (64%)
• Management and general $358,907 (31%)
• Fundraising $62,058 (5%)

Where the money comes from, year ending Dec 2023

• Gifts and grants $614,125 (56%)
• Program fees $455,868 (41%)
• Investment income $322 (0%)
• Other $33,099 (3%)

People: 140 employees and 87 volunteers reported for the year ending Dec 2023. Counts only; BackPR does not publish names of officers or staff.

Revenue trend: Shrinking. Revenue went from $1,461,810 (year ending Dec 2022) to $1,103,414 (Dec 2023), about -25% a year.

Growth label: we compare total revenue on the oldest and the newest return shown above. Growing means revenue rose by more than 10% a year on average, Shrinking means it fell by more than 10% a year, and Steady means a change between -10% and +10% a year. The rate is the compounded yearly average between the two returns, so it hides ups and downs in between (see the table). We only label groups with returns at least a year apart and at least $5,000 of revenue on the oldest one. This is our own calculation, not an IRS rating or a judgment of quality.

Source: IRS Form 990 Series Downloads (the returns open on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, which republishes the IRS files). Figures are as the organization filed them. New York nonprofit.

How it compares

1 of 3 arts education nonprofits in Ithaca when sorted from largest to smallest revenue. This shows size only, not quality. Groups with no reported revenue are listed last.

Size: revenue of $1,239,921 is higher than roughly 60 to 70% of the 56 arts education nonprofits in New York that report revenue to the IRS (the city count above also includes groups with none). The median is $597,349.

Our analysis of the IRS Business Master File (posted October 13, 2026), using each group's latest reported revenue. Groups are sorted by revenue and split into ten equal bands, using all New York groups of this type (Arts education, which covers several IRS activity codes). Size only, not a rating.

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