· Public charity
Jersey City Arts Council Inc
To protect, strengthen, and promote the arts in jersey city.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $92,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $202,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $110,250 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NIMBUS DANCE WORKS INC | $9,000 |
| MONIRA FOUNDATION | $8,400 |
| ART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS | $8,400 |
| EDUCATIONAL ARTS TEAM INC | $8,400 |
| RIVERVIEWJAZZORG | $7,800 |
| SURATI FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $7,800 |
| SPERANZA THEATRE COMPANY | $7,450 |
| THE KENNEDY DANCERS INC | $6,300 |
| VICTORY HALL INC | $6,300 |
| JERSEY CITY THEATER CENTER INC | $6,300 |
| ARIEL RIVKA DANCE INC | $5,850 |
| PRO ARTS JERSEY CITY | $5,250 |
| LADIES OF HIP-HOP FESTIVAL | $5,250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Entertainment
Ballet theater
A Contemporary Dance Company Based in New York City
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
Support dancers and the performing arts
Creation and performance of dance theater and related art works. Community and other workshops.
Creating, Performing & Sharing Powerful classical dance Kathak
Sukkahwood Inc. provides arts programs for the Northern Manhattan community with a Jewish theme.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jersey City Theater Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Victory Hall Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NIMBUS DANCE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL ARTS TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds MONIRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEWJAZZ ORG ↗
- Who funds SURATI FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SPERANZA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY HALL INC ↗
- Who funds The Kennedy Dancers Inc ↗
- Who funds Jersey City Theater Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIEL RIVKA DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival ↗
- Who funds Pro Arts Jersey City ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jersey City Arts Council Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Kennedy Dancers Inc — 27% of income from government
- Nimbus Dance Works Inc — 22% of income from government
- Surati for Performing Arts Inc — 13% of income from government
- Art House Productions Inc — 8% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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