NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A610

Classification

1000

Street

130 WEST 56TH STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• PRODUCTIONS AND PROGRAMMINGCITY CENTER'S 2024-2025 SEASON OPENED WITH THE FALL FOR DANCE FESTIVAL, ONE OF OUR FLAGSHIP PROGRAMS THAT HAS LAUNCHED THE SEASON FOR OVER 20 YEARS. RENOWNED FOR ITS DIVERSE PROGRAMMING AND AFFORDABLE $30 TICKETS, FALL FOR DANCE BRINGS TOGETHER TOP DANCE COMPANIES FROM NEW YORK CITY, ACROSS THE U.S., AND AROUND THE WORLD, ATTRACTING A BROAD AUDIENCE WHILE NURTURING NEW DANCE LOVERS. THE FESTIVAL ALSO CONTINUES TO DRIVE INNOVATION THROUGH ITS COMMISSIONING PROGRAM, WHICH HAS PRODUCED 52 WORLD PREMIERES, 56 U.S. PREMIERES, AND 64 NEW YORK CITY PREMIERES TO DATE. THIS YEAR'S FALL FOR DANCE INCLUDED PERFORMANCES BY NATIONAL BALLET OF UKRAINE (UKRAINE), BOSTON BALLET, KNONAME ARTIST RODERICK GEORGE, ANNE PLAMONDON PRODUCTIONS (CANADA), M.A.D.D. RHYTHMS, CANADA'S ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET (CANADA), A.I.M. BY KYLE ABRAHAM, CCN/ATERBALLETTO (ITALY), DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET (NETHERLANDS), SARA MEARNS AND TYLER ANGLE, CASSANDRA TRENARY, AND GANDINI JUGGLING (UNITED KINGDOM). THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL INCLUDED TWO WORLD PREMIERES, TWO US PREMIERES, AND FOUR NEW YORK PREMIERES, AS WELL AS TWO CITY CENTER COMMISSIONS. IN PROGRAM ONE, AMERICAN BALLET THEATER'S ARAN BELL TOOK THE STAGE TO PERFORM PIANO SONGS, A CITY CENTER CO-COMMISSION (WITH THE VAIL DANCE FESTIVAL) FOR ACCLAIMED DANCER TILER PECK. THE SECOND, THE SPECTER OF THE ROSE, CHOREOGRAPHED BY AMERICAN BALLET THEATER DANCER HERMAN CORNEJO, WHO PERFORMED THE DUET WITH FELLOW ABT DANCER SKYLAR BRANDT.CITY CENTER'S FALL DANCE SEASON ALSO INCLUDED A PRESENTATION OF DORRANCE DANCE. THIS HOLIDAY-THEMED DOUBLE BILL FEATURED PERFORMANCES OF AN ELLA'QUENT HOLIDAY SWING (BUILT AROUND THE MUSIC OF ELLA FITZGERALD AND FRANK DEVOL) AND THE NUTCRACKER SUITE (FROM THE DUKE ELLINGTON-BILLY STRAYHORN RENDITION OF TCHAIKOVSKY'S FAMOUS BALLET) PERFORMED BY A CORPS OF TAP DANCERS. A JAZZY AND COLORFUL PRODUCTION, THIS PRESENTATION OF DORRANCE DANCE REPRESENTED A DEEPER FORAY INTO FAMILY-CENTRIC PROGRAMMING FOR CITY CENTER, INCLUDING TWO SPECIAL "FAMILY MATINEE"PERFORMANCES WITH ASSORTED PRE-SHOW ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ORGANIZED BY OUR EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DEPARTMENT.THE SPRING DANCE SEASON BEGAN WITH THE RETURN OF THE FLAMENCO FESTIVAL, A CITY CENTER STAPLE FOR OVER TWO DECADES. IT FEATURED PERFORMANCES BY NATIONAL BALLET OF SPAIN, OLGA PERICET, AND GALA FLAMENCA, EACH OF WHICH DEMONSTRATED VIRTUOSIC TALENT IN VARYING STYLES. ANOTHER HIGHLIGHT OF THE SPRING SEASON INCLUDED TWYLA THARPS DANCE DIAMOND JUBILEE, WITH TWO NEW YORK PREMIERES THAT HIGHLIGHT THE INIMITABLE ARTISTRY AND SENSE OF PLAYFULNESS THAT HAS DEFINED HER LEGENDARY CAREER. THE DANCE SEASON CONCLUDED WITH THE LATEST ITERATION OF OUR ARTISTS AT THE CENTER SERIES, WHICH GIVES HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED DANCERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO CURATE A DANCE PROGRAM THAT SPEAKS TO THEIR UNIQUE AESTHETICS. THIS YEAR HIGHLIGHTED SARA MEARNS, THE HIGHLY LAUDED NEW YORK CITY BALLET PRINCIPAL. HER PROGRAM FEATURED TWO WORLD PREMIERE CITY CENTER COMMISSIONS: DON'T GO HOME AND DANCE IS A MOTHER.MAINSTAGE MUSICAL THEATER PRODUCTIONS:CITY CENTER PRODUCED A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED REVIVAL OF RAGTIME FOR ITS ANNUAL GALA PRESENTATION THIS SEASON. FEATURING A SCORE BY STEPHEN FLAHERTY AND LYNNE AHRENS AND A BOOK BY TERRANCE MCNALLY, RAGTIME IS AN EPIC MUSICAL EXAMINATION OF CLASS, RACE, AND IDENTITY IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY NEW YORK. OUR STAR-STUDDED PRODUCTION FEATURED BROADWAY LUMINARIES SUCH AS JOSHUA HENRY, CAISSIE LEVY, AND BRANDON URANOWITZ AND WAS DIRECTED BY OUTGOING ENCORES! ARTISTIC DIRECTOR LEAR DEBESSONET. HAILED AS BOTH "EXHILARATING AND "MOVING" BY JESSIE GREEN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, THIS PRODUCTION WAS A SMASH HIT, DRAWING IN AUDIENCES WITH OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES AND GENUINE PATHOS. ITS SUCCESS LED TO A BROADWAY TRANSFER TO LINCOLN CENTER THEATER, WHICH OPENED IN NOVEMBER 2025 AND IS SET TO CLOSE IN JUNE 2026.THE 2025 ENCORES! SEASON CURATED BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR LEAR DEBESSONET, CREATIVE DIRECTOR CLINT RAMOS, MUSIC DIRECTOR MARY-MITCHELL CAMPBELL, AND VP AND PRODUCER JENNY GERSTON, THE SEASON INCLUDED TWO-WEEK RUNS FOR EACH SHOW. THE SEASON OPENED WITH URINETOWN, A SATIRICAL AND BRECHTIAN SENDUP OF THE EXCESSES OF CAPITALISM THAT FOLLOWS EVERYMAN BOBBY STRONG (JORDAN FISHER) AS HE LEADS A REVOLT AGAINST THE URINE GOOD COMPANY LED BY THE DEVILISH CALDWELL B. CLADWELL (A HILARIOUS RAINN WILSON). THIS PRODUCTION WAS A HIT WITH BOTH AUDIENCES AND CRITICS, EARNING OUR FIFTH CONSECUTIVE "CRITIC'S PICK" DESIGNATION. NEXT, ENCORES! PRESENTED LOVE LIFE, A PROTO-CONCEPT MUSICAL THAT TRACES SHIFTING SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC NORMS THROUGHOUT AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH THE EXPERIENCES OF MARRIED COUPLE SUSAN AND SAM COOPER, PLAYED BY KATE BALDWIN AND BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL. THE SEASON CONCLUDED WITH WONDERFUL TOWN; SET IN 1935, WONDERFUL TOWN FOLLOWS RUTH (ANIKA NONI ROSE) AND EILEEN (AISHA JACKSON), TWO SISTERS WHO MOVE FROM OHIO TO GREENWICH VILLAGE IN PURSUIT OF THEIR CREATIVE DREAMS. MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED THE RARE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR BERNSTEIN'S SCORE RESTORED TO ITS ORIGINAL 28-PIECE ORCHESTRATIONS, PAIRED WITH STANDOUT CHOREOGRAPHY BY LORIN LATARRO AND AYODELE CASEL.

  Expenses $20,306,749 · Revenue $13,940,541

• OFFICE TOWER AND STUDIO RENTALSTUDIO AND OFFICE RENTAL PROGRAMS ARE CONDUCTED AS PART OF THE ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE. CITY CENTER'S THREE REHEARSAL STUDIOS WERE RENTED BY HUNDREDS OF DANCERS, CHOREOGRAPHERS AND COMPANIES, MANY OF THEM TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A SUBSIDIZED RATE OF $20 PER HOUR.

  Expenses $2,293,151 · Revenue $943,514

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $1,592,839 · Revenue $231,502

• STAGES I & II:MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB PRESENTED SEVERAL SHOWS ON CITY CENTER'S STAGES I AND II, INCLUDING THE TWO WORLD PREMIERS VLADIMIR AND DAKAR 2000.

  Expenses $793,209 · Revenue $577,557

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

• MICHAEL ROSENBERG

  PRESIDENT AND CEO

  Total calculated

  $485,062

  From this org

  $440,358

  From related orgs

  $0

  Other

  $44,704

  Hours/week

  40

  Schedule J breakdown matched by us

  Base

  $440,358

  Bonus

  $0

  Other

  $0

  Deferred

  $38,295

  Nontaxable benefits

  $6,409

  Filer's total

  $485,062

• RICHARD E WITTEN

  CHAIRMAN

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• ERANA MSTENNETT

  VICE-CHAIR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• JULIE ABRAMS LEFF

  VICE-CHAIR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• PATRICK CROSETTO

  VICE-CHAIR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• RAYMOND A LAMONTAGNE

  CHAIR EMERITUS

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• AKILA RAMAN

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• AYODELE CASEL

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• BARBARA ZALAZNICK

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• CARL QUINTANILLA

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• DAMIAN WOETZEL

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• DAVID HALLBERG

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• DEBORAH GOODMAN DAVIS

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• DEIDRE LATOUR

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• DIANE HIRSCH

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• ELINOR RUTH TATUM

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• ELIZABETH H WITTEN

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• HARRIS DIAMOND

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• JEANETTE W LOEB

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• JENNIFER GRAZEL

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• JOANNA SANDERS

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• JOSEPH S STEINBERG

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• KELLI O'HARA

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• NANCY MACMILLAN

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• PAUL SPIVEY

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $31,018,533

  Expenses

  $32,029,298

  Contributions

  $13,372,997

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $29,836,686

  Expenses

  $31,660,019

  Contributions

  $9,420,441

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $23,692,997

  Expenses

  $26,694,292

  Contributions

  $9,424,865

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $33,333,714

  Expenses

  $25,368,918

  Assets (EOY)

  $75,936,924

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $28,607,817

  Expenses

  $12,368,306

  Assets (EOY)

  $71,819,356

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $21,340,158

  Expenses

  $23,620,235

  Assets (EOY)

  $53,559,931

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $25,965,573

  Expenses

  $27,134,582

  Assets (EOY)

  $57,694,553

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $28,490,704

  Expenses

  $25,240,156

  Assets (EOY)

  $56,952,587

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $28,490,704

  Expenses

  $25,240,156

  Assets (EOY)

  $56,952,587

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $26,734,559

  Expenses

  $22,269,732

  Assets (EOY)

  $53,130,064

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $20,769,892

  Expenses

  $20,185,389

  Assets (EOY)

  $47,377,829

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $26,039,599

  Expenses

  $22,640,011

  Assets (EOY)

  $49,149,962

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $22,874,211

  Expenses

  $21,563,431

  Assets (EOY)

  $47,099,698

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $940,000

  2024 · CULTURE & ARTS

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $400,500

  2022 · CULTURE & ARTS

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $368,950

  2024 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $365,800

  2023 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $299,450

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $290,500

  2023 · CULTURE & ARTS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $282,459

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $259,658

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST

  $200,000

  2024 · FOR PROGRAM SUPPORT.

• THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST

  $180,000

  2023 · FOR PROGRAM SUPPORT.

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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