On this twelfth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y), consider donating to theater in New York.

Below, an alphabetical list of more than 100 New York theaters and theater companies, with links to their home page or donate page. But first a shorter list of charitable, service, advocacy and educational theater organizations based in New York. These are all non-profits. Donations to them are tax deductible.

I’ve put an asterisk next to those organizations that Charity Navigator has given its highest rating (four stars), which means they fulfilled at least ninety percent of the criteria for accountability, transparency, financial health, impact and results. (It need be said that some theaters and theater organizations are too new, or too small, to have been rated: “The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.”) I encourage you to look up the individual charities on the Charity Navigator site, even those with an asterisk. Some of the information available, such as “salary of key persons,” is eye-opening and might help you determine which to support.

Theater Service/Education/Advocacy Organizations

*The 52nd Street Project

*Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York

*American Theatre Wing, creators of the Tonys

The Arthur Miller Foundation – bringing quality theater and film education to New York City public school students

Black Theatre Coalition

*Broadway Advocacy Coalition

*Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

Dramatists Guild Foundation

*Entertainment Community Fund (formerly the Actors Fund)

The Lilly Awards – developing and celebrating women artist

*New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center

*Rosie’s Theater Kids

Sing for Your Seniors performing for seniors at hospitals and care facilities

Story Pirates turning kids’ original stories into wild sketch comedy musicals

*Theatre Communications Group, NY , NY-based national organization of American theaters, publishers of dramatic literature and American Theatre Magazine

*Theatre Development Fund, TKTS ticket booths, plus accessibility services.

New York Theaters

54 Below

Abingdon Theatre Company

Abrons Arts Center

Access Theater

Adjusted Realists

AENY – Spanish Artists in New York

All For One Theater

American Theatre of Actors

*Apollo Theater

Aquila Theatre Company

*Ars Nova

Art for Progress

Astoria Performing Arts Center

Athena Theatre Company

Atlantic Theater Company

Atticist

*BAM

Bated Breath Theatre Company

*BEDLAM

Boomerang Theater Company

Boundless Theatre Company

Brave Artist Collective Theater Company

Brick Theater

Brierpatch Productions

Classic Stage Company

*Classical Theatre of Harlem

Company XIV

Convergences Theatre Collective

Corkscrew Theater Festival

Culture Project

Department of Fools

Dutch Kills Theater

Elephant Run District

*Elevator Repair Service

*En Garde Arts

Ensemble Studio Theatre

Flux Theatre Ensemble

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade

Frog and Peach Theatre Company

Fusion Theater Company

Group.BR

Harlem Repertory Theatre

*HERE Arts Center

IATI Theater

INTAR Theatre

InViolet Theater

*Irish Rep

*Irondale Ensemble

iRT Theater

JACK

Jalopy Theate

Julia de Burgos Performance and Arts Center

Keen Company

La MaMa ETC

Lesser America

*Lincoln Center Theater

Locked In The Attic Productions

*Manhattan Theatre Club

*Ma-Yi Theater Company

*MCC Theater

Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble

Metropolitan Playhouse

*Mint Theater Company

National Black Theatre

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene

Negro Ensemble Company

New Federal Theatre

New Light Theater Project

*New York City Center

New York Neo-Futurists

NewYorkRep

*New York Theatre Workshop

PAC NYC

Page 73 Productions

Paradise Factory Theater

*Park Avenue Armory

Peculiar Works Project

Penguin Repertory Theatre

Pipeline Theatre CompanyP

Players Theatre

*Playwrights Horizons

*Pregones + Puerto Rican Traveling Theater

Primary Stages

Project Y Theatre Company

*The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival

Queens Shakespeare

Radiotheatre NYC

Random Access Theatre

*Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Red Bull Theater

Repertorio Español

*Roundabout Theatre Company

Second Stage Theatre

Sheen Center

Signature Theatre Company

SITI Company

SoHo Playhouse

*Soho Rep

Superhero Clubhouse

TACT NY

*Target Margin Theater

Teatro SEA

*Tectonic Theater

The Actors Studio

Theater Breaking Through Barriers

*Theater for the New City

Theater of the Oppressed

Theaterlab

Theater Mitu

Theatre for a New Audience

*The Billie Holiday Theatre

The Brick

The Cell Theatre

The Flea Theater

The Peoples Improv Theater

The Playwrights Realm

The Secret Theatre

*The Tank

The York Theatre Company

Third Rail Projects

Transport Group

T. Schreiber Theatre

Untitled Theater Company #61

Urban Stages

*Vineyard Theatre

Waterwell

What Will the Neighbors Say?

WP Theater

I’ve tried to keep this list up to date (adding an asterisk to those that have jumped in the ratings, removing one from those that have declined; adding new theaters of those that have turned non-profit, removing those that have gone out of business or turned into for-profit.) If any worthies are missing, please provide the name and link in the Comments sections.