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· Public charity

Jersey City Arts Council Inc

To protect, strengthen, and promote the arts in jersey city.

$203k
Granted FY2022
13
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2022 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $92,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $202,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $110,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,450
Median grant
2
States reached
$141k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NIMBUS DANCE WORKS INC$9,000
EDUCATIONAL ARTS TEAM INC$8,400
MONIRA FOUNDATION$8,400
ART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS$8,400
SURATI FOR PERFORMING ARTS$7,800
RIVERVIEWJAZZORG$7,800
SPERANZA THEATRE COMPANY$7,450
VICTORY HALL INC$6,300
JERSEY CITY THEATER CENTER INC$6,300
THE KENNEDY DANCERS INC$6,300
ARIEL RIVKA DANCE INC$5,850
PRO ARTS JERSEY CITY$5,250
LADIES OF HIP-HOP FESTIVAL$5,250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MONIRA FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%NIMBUS DANCE WORKS INC: $9k → 14%JERSEY CITY THEATER CENTER INC: $6k → 16%ARIEL RIVKA DANCE INC: $6k → 14%PRO ARTS JERSEY CITY: $5k → 14%RIVERVIEWJAZZORG: $8k → 14%ART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS: $8k → 14%VICTORY HALL INC: $6k → 14%SURATI FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $8k → 14%SPERANZA THEATRE COMPANY: $7k → 14%THE KENNEDY DANCERS INC: $6k → 14%LADIES OF HIP-HOP FESTIVAL: $5k → 14%EDUCATIONAL ARTS TEAM INC: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Blue Curtain a Nj NonProfit Corporation

Entertainment

Arts & Culture
2
Jersey City Ballet Theater

Ballet theater

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3
Guttenberg Arts a Nj Nonprofit Corp
Arts & Culture
4
Alma Nyc Dance Company Inc
Arts & Culture
5
Fjk Dance Inc

A Contemporary Dance Company Based in New York City

Arts & Culture
6
Hovnatan Arts Nyc Inc
Arts & Culture
7
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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8
The Tank Ltd

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Judah Performing Arts Company

Support dancers and the performing arts

Arts & Culture
10
Anikaya Akhra Inc

Creation and performance of dance theater and related art works. Community and other workshops.

Arts & Culture
11
Barkha Dance Company Inc

Creating, Performing & Sharing Powerful classical dance Kathak

Arts & Culture
12
Sukkahwood Inc

Sukkahwood Inc. provides arts programs for the Northern Manhattan community with a Jewish theme.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jersey City Theater Center Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NIMBUS DANCE WORKS INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureNIMBUS DANCE WORKS INCART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS INC: $8,400 · Arts & CultureART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS INCMONIRA FOUNDATION: $8,400 · Arts & CultureMONIRA FOUNDATIONRIVERVIEWJAZZ ORG: $7,800 · Arts & CultureRIVERVIEWJAZZ ORGSURATI FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $7,800 · Arts & CultureSURATI FOR PERFORMING ARTS INCSPERANZA THEATRE INC: $7,450 · Arts & CultureSPERANZA THEATRE INCJersey City Theater Center Inc: $6,300 · Arts & CultureJersey City Theater Center IncVICTORY HALL INC: $6,300 · Arts & CultureVICTORY HALL INCARIEL RIVKA DANCE INC: $5,850 · Arts & CultureARIEL RIVKA DANCE INCLadies of Hip-Hop Festival: $5,250 · Arts & CultureLadies of Hip-Hop FestivalPro Arts Jersey City: $5,250 · Arts & CulturePro Arts Jersey CityEDUCATIONAL ARTS TEAM INC: $8,400 · OtherEDUCATIONAL ARTS T…The Kennedy Dancers Inc: $6,300 · OtherThe Kennedy Dancer…
Arts & Culture$77,800Other$14,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNIMBUS DANCE WORKS INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS INC: $8,400 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ARTS TEAM INC: $8,400 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMONIRA FOUNDATION: $8,400 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRIVERVIEWJAZZ ORG: $7,800 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSURATI FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $7,800 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetJersey City Theater Center Inc: $6,300 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Kennedy Dancers Inc: $6,300 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVICTORY HALL INC: $6,300 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetARIEL RIVKA DANCE INC: $5,850 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLadies of Hip-Hop Festival: $5,250 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPro Arts Jersey City: $5,250 over 1y, 13% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Princeton Area Commun…Investors Foundation …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Amazonsmile Foundation
Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jersey City Arts Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jersey City Arts Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jersey City Arts Council Inc?

Find your warmest path to Jersey City Arts Council Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $100k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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