· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PUBLIC ART FUND INC | $15,000 |
| GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC | $15,000 |
| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC | $10,000 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| WNET | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC | $10,000 |
| DC WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC | $10,000 |
| HALEAKALA INC | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- DSDANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -38%
- CFCOMMUNITY FUNDS INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TDTHE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +12%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 PUBLIC ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS 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 DANCE CONTINUUM INC DBA STUDIO SUSAN MARSHALL ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN PETRONIO DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DANSPACE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET TECH FOUNDATION 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 THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRAMATISTS GUILD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT CINEMA INITIATIVE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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