· Public charity
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc
To create a fertile & nurturing environment for artists & art groups (continued on schedule o).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 67 grants below total $645,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,775,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,130,750 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $357k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $288k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 4 WHEEL CITY | $16,000 |
| THE ART SONG PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEW YORK | $16,000 |
| THE GATEKEEPERS COLLECTIVE INC | $16,000 |
| HELPING OUR PEOPLE EVOLVE INCORPORATED | $12,000 |
| DARRAH CARR DANCE INC | $12,000 |
| SALON SEANCE PRODUCTIONS INC | $12,000 |
| THE BOWERY JAZZ MESSENGERS | $12,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN JAZZ INC | $12,000 |
| NEW AMSTERDAM MUSICAL ASSOCIATION | $12,000 |
| DUKE ELLINGTON FOR THE ARTS INC | $12,000 |
| DHARMA ROAD PRODUCTIONS INC | $12,000 |
| THEATRETWEED INC | $12,000 |
| URBAN GARAGE INC | $12,000 |
| PLUMA POETICA DEL ARTE INC | $12,000 |
| HARLEM OPERA THEATER INC | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
133 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 88 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
FRACTURED ATLAS INC5× · 2018–2025 · $208k · revenue +57%- TPTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC3× · 2018–2020 · $90k · revenue +166%
- LCLA CASA DE LA HERENCIA CULTURAL PUERTORRIQUENA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +181% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- UPUNIQUE PROJECTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +72%
- TUThe Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collectiveone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +4%
- FIFADA I ARTS INCone grant, 2024 · $12k
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.
A Contemporary Dance Company Based in New York City
New music theatre project is organized for the cultural purpose of developing new work that explores the traditional and innovative ways in which music and theatre play together. we focus on commissioning and co- producing new works of…
New Dance Alliance is a performing arts nonprofit. Our mission, from the earliest days, has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, we have shifted our focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and…
Cultural and educational performances
Cultural and educational performances
Cultural-educational, via multi-discipline arts hosting for the general public, and technical support for arts professionals.
Chelsea Opera produces live staged performances and concerts of various musical types including opera, classical music and popular jazz, engagingsingers, pianists and instrumentalists, and production staff (stage director, stage manager,…
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…
Anonymous Ensemble creates new theater, performance media, and live film. Incorporating original texts, music, rituals, and technologies, we foster intimate experiences between local and digitally global communities. By giving voice and…
Provide high quality low cost performing arts classes to underserved children in Harlem and the surrounding neigborhoods.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Chamber Ballet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marcus Garvey Park Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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.
177 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 177 of the 267 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HEIGHTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE LA HERENCIA CULTURAL PUERTORRIQUENA INC ↗
- Who funds DARRAH CARR DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NY BARD WO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMSTERDAM MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JAZZ WAHI INC ↗
- Who funds NYC KIDSFEST INC ↗
- Who funds PLUMA POETICA DEL ARTE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKAM NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENERAL MISCHIEF DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HARLEM PRESENTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE STONEWALL CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds YAFFA CULTURAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Harlem Chamber Players Inc ↗
- Who funds JAZZ DRAMA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds East Winds Inc ↗
- Who funds SEVEN STORIES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Pan American Musical Art Research Inc ↗
- Who funds TE AO MANA INC ↗
- Who funds Iceberg New Music Inc ↗
- Who funds HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DUKE ELLINGTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Traditional Music and Dance Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN AMERICAN WORKSHOP INC ↗
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: West Harlem Development Corporation · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · New Music USA Inc · Dance Service New York City Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Fractured Atlas Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · City Parks 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 Lower Manhattan Cultural 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.