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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc

To sustain, encourage, and promote the performing arts and to educate the public with relation thereto.

$5.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$28MHousing & Shelter$80k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,479,760
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC$5,479,760
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%The Laundromat Project Inc: $50k → 17%Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation: $75k → 20%The DreamYard Project Inc: $80k → 28%LINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $5.8M → 17%BRIC Arts Media Bklyn Inc: $80k → 20%BAAD The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance: $65k → 28%LINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $5.5M → 17%Urban Bush Women Inc: $50k → 20%Pregones Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Inc: $85k → 28%LINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $4.0M → 17%The Wyckoff House & Association Inc: $60k → 20%The Bronx Documentary Center Inc: $65k → 28%LINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $2.6M → 17%Art Creates Us Inc dba ProjectArt: $80k → 20%Women's Housing & Economic Development Corporation: $80k → 28%LINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $2.5M → 17%Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy Inc: $80k → 20%LINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $2.4M → 17%LINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $2.4M → 17%LINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $1.4M → 17%LINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $546k → 17%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 86% of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 14%.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.

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The Brick Theater Inc

Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
3
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc

Bax/brooklyn arts exchange is a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process through education, residencies, and performance at the intersection of arts and social justice.

Arts & Culture
4
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
5
The Bronx Museum of the Arts

The bronx museum of the arts is a contemporary art museum that connects diverse audiences to the urban experience through its permanent collection, special exhibitions, education programs, and public and community programming and outreach…

Arts & Culture
6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
The Bronx Council On the Arts Incorporated

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture
8
The Bushwick Starr Inc

The Bushwick Starr is an Obie Award-winning nonprofit theater that presents an annual season of new performance works. We are an organization defined by both our artists and our community, and since 2007, we have grown into a thriving…

Arts & Culture
9
Art of Brooklyn Festival

The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for…

Arts & Culture
10
The Bronx River Arts Center Inc

Brac is a culturally diverse, multi-arts nonprofit providing a forum for community, artists, and youth to transform creativity into action through education, exhibitions, artist studios, performing arts, and environmental stewardship.

Arts & Culture
11
Parity Productions Inc
Arts & Culture
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Brooklyn Inst of Arts & Sciences Trust
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is U B W Inc a/K/a Urban Bush Women Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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)
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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

LINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $27,091,179 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC+10 more: $710,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE WYCKOFF HOUSE & ASSOCIATION INC: $60,000 · Other
Arts & Culture$27,801,179Housing & Shelter$80,000Other$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLINCOLN CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $27,091,179 over 9y, 53% of budgetPREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC: $85,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetIFETAYO CULTURAL ARTS ACADEMY INC: $80,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $80,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetART CREATES US INC: $80,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetARTHUR AVILES TYPICAL THEATRE INC: $65,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER: $65,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE WYCKOFF HOUSE & ASSOCIATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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.

The Ford FoundationLily Auchincloss Foun…The Howard Gilman Fou…The New York Communit…The Pierre & Tana Mat…Brooklyn Community Fo…Jerome Foundation IncThe Scherman Foundati…Pinkerton FoundationRockefeller Brothers …Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Hyde and Watson F…
The Ford FoundationNY18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Hyde and Watson 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 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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