· Private foundation
Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATER | $50,000 |
| CELEBRATE THE BEAT | $25,000 |
| THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY | $15,000 |
| GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC | $15,000 |
| PUBLIC ART FUND INC | $15,000 |
| DC WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC | $10,000 |
| HOME FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATRE AND ART LTD | $10,000 |
| THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM | $10,000 |
| SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY | $10,000 |
| THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| HARLEM STAGE INC | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| DISCALCED INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
31 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TVTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER7× · 2017–2024 · $137k · revenue +59%
- TATHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA8× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +80%
- GGGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TDTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +12%
- CFCOMMUNITY FUNDS INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- DSDANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.
Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.
As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…
Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…
Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…
Founded by choreographer paul taylor in 1954, paul taylor dance company is a premier institutional center for american modern dance. under the artistic direction of michael novak, paul taylor dance company honors taylor's groundbreaking…
Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…
The new 42nd street, inc. (d/b/a new 42) is a leading performing arts nonprofit whose mission is to make extraordinary performing arts a vital part of everyone's life from the earliest years onward.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westport Cinema Initiative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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. 38 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATE THE BEAT ↗
- Who funds DANCE PLACE ↗
- Who funds GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HALEAKALA INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center ↗
- Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN PETRONIO DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE CONTINUUM INC DBA STUDIO SUSAN MARSHALL ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds DANSPACE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE SYMPHONY SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds THE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT CINEMA INITIATIVE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Jewish Communal Fund · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · Arnhold Foundation Inc
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 Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc — 3% 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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