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Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc

To create a fertile & nurturing environment for artists & art groups (continued on schedule o).

$1.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
67
Itemized grants FY2025
79
Organizations funded FY2024
41%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$645k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$16,000
Organizations funded a year
48 to 83
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$9.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving64$645k30%
FY202479$690k41%
FY202375$591k40%
FY202264$477k36%
FY202172$547k31%
FY202083$721k54%
FY201972$715k65%
FY201848$417kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.7MEnvironment$36kInternational$15kHealth$9kEmployment$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fractured Atlas Inc$208,40050%
The Performance Zone Inc$89,90031%
Gatekeepers Collective Inc$77,5006n/a
Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra Corporation$67,700610%
Blackberry Productions Inc$64,4005n/a
24 6 a Jewish Theater Company Inc$57,3005n/a
La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriquena Inc$54,800646%
Darrah Carr Dance Inc$54,332748%
Ny Bard Wo Association Inc$53,400730%
New Amsterdam Musical Association$51,200620%
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All grantees of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fractured Atlas Inc$208,40050%
The Performance Zone Inc$89,90031%
Gatekeepers Collective Inc$77,5006n/a
Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra Corporation$67,700610%
Blackberry Productions Inc$64,4005n/a
24 6 a Jewish Theater Company Inc$57,3005n/a
La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriquena Inc$54,800646%
Darrah Carr Dance Inc$54,332748%
Ny Bard Wo Association Inc$53,400730%
New Amsterdam Musical Association$51,200620%
Jazz Wahi Inc$49,9894n/a
Dharma Road Productions Inc$49,2896n/a
The Harlem Swing Dance Society$46,0004n/a
NYC Kidsfest Inc$43,700414%
Art Song Preservation Society of New York Inc$43,6004n/a
Pluma Poetica del Arte Inc$43,200562%
Makam New York Inc$42,7004n/a
Harlem Arts Alliance$42,600212%
African Diaspora Film Festival Inc$41,50059%
Dances for a Variable Population Inc$41,20053%
General Mischief Dance Theatre$40,6324n/a
Harlem Presents Inc$40,400532%
New York Poem Arts Center Inc$39,3005n/a
The Stonewall Chorale Inc$38,789511%
Yaffa Cultural Arts Inc$38,70055%
The Harlem Chamber Players Inc$38,60046%
Jazz Drama Program$38,50054%
East Winds Inc$38,100522%
Seven Stories Institute$36,99845%
Sr Socially Relevant Film Festival Inc$36,9005n/a
Latino Film Market Inc$36,0504n/a
Pan American Musical Art Research Inc$36,000419%
Te Ao Mana Inc$35,200467%
Iceberg New Music Inc$34,189536%
Harlem Needle Arts Inc$34,100410%
The Duke Ellington Center for the Arts Inc$34,000414%
Arts at Tenri Cultural Institute$33,9895n/a
Center for Traditional Music and Dance Inc$33,35041%
Workers Unite Film Festival Inc$33,1005n/a
The Latin American Workshop Inc$32,80043%
New York Scandia Symphony$32,500413%
Up Theater Company Inc$32,400513%
Man Chee Dramatic & Benevolent Association Inc$30,7004n/a
Japan Folk Dance Inst of Ny$30,400415%
Los Pleneros de la 21 Inc$30,30043%
Keoni Movement Arts Inc$30,100418%
Eastern American Fuzhou Association Inc$29,6004n/a
Harlem Dance Club$28,5004n/a
Jazz Foundation of America Inc$28,00020%
Autism Community Theatre Inc$27,9004n/a
International Women in Jazz Inc$27,6003n/a
Helping Our People Evolve Incorporated$27,500316%
Sukkahwood Inc$27,3004n/a
Chinese Musical Arts Inc$27,100343%
Cerddorion NYC Inc$27,089434%
Theatre Tweed Inc$26,700325%
Coopdanza Inc$26,700343%
Urban Garage Inc$26,6003n/a
Matthew Westerby Dance Company Inc$26,03227%
4 Wheel City$26,0002n/a
Artspectrum$25,5002n/a
Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra Company$25,2003n/a
Agm Theater Company$25,100322%
Manhattan Theatre Source Incorporated$24,7003n/a
Experimental Theatre Project Inc$24,6003n/a
International Communications Assoc$24,400313%
Gotham Early Music Scene Inc$24,00021%
Clark Center NYC Inc$23,700345%
Inwood Art Works Inc$23,300212%
Ensemble Pie Inc$23,1003n/a
Gamelan Kusuma Laras Inc$22,6003n/a
Barrio Independent Productions Inc$22,500335%
Faces of Harlem$21,9002n/a
Earth Celebrationsinc$21,800313%
The Latino Experimental Fantastic Latino Theater Inc$21,600231%
Centro Civico Cultural Dominicano Inc$21,60036%
Fundacion Yolanda Laprea Inc$21,5003n/a
Composers Now Inc$21,50032%
Association for the Development of Vocal Artistry and Neighborhood Cultural Enrichment$21,400333%
Sisters in Sharqui$21,2002n/a
Michiyaya Dance Company Inc$20,900320%
Soharmoniums Incorporated$20,300310%
Artcrawl Harlem Inc$20,1002n/a
Bowery Jazz Messengers Inc$20,0002n/a
Casea Arts Inc$19,3003n/a
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance$19,20036%
Clutch Productions Inc$18,90037%
Symphony of the City of New York Inc$18,3002n/a
Loadbang Inc$17,4003n/a
El Barrio Theatre Group Incorporated$17,000252%
Hypokrit Foundation Inc$16,500211%
New York Chinese Classical Poetry Arts Association Inc$16,5002n/a
Dance 2000 The Felice Lesser Dance Theater Foundation Inc$16,100223%
Harlem Dance Club Inc$16,0322n/a
Experimental Theatre Chicago$16,0002n/a
MODArts Dance Collective Inc$16,00026%
Roxanne Dance Foundation Inc$15,732224%
Drastic Action Inc$15,7002n/a
Ballet and Beyond NYC Inc$15,70027%
The Center for Jewish History Inc$15,60020%
Crossing Jamaica Avenue Inc$15,6002n/a
Jackie Robinson Park Conservancy Inc$15,4002n/a
Nylaughs Inc$15,348216%
Sculptors Alliance Inc$15,2002n/a
Marcus Garvey Park Alliance Inc$15,200228%
Arctic Cycle$15,20028%
Wade Dance Inc$15,200218%
Create in Chinatown Inc$15,2002n/a
International Child Program Inc Icp$14,9002n/a
PITCHBLACK Immersive Experiences Inc$14,70023%
Kehila Kedosha Janina Preservation and Cultural Fund Inc$14,6002n/a
Group BR Limited$14,600214%
Sachiyo Ito and Company Inc$14,500233%
Unique Projects Inc$14,50012%
Voyage Theater Company Inc$14,4002n/a
Kaiser's Room Inc$14,400213%
Turkish & International Music Ensemble$14,200214%
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice$14,10021%
Creative Stage Collective Ltd$14,000213%
New Amsterdam Opera Inc$14,0002n/a
Harlem Arts Foundation$14,0002100%
Childrens Institute of Fashion Arts Inc$13,800214%
West Side Community Garden$13,50029%
Banana Boat Productions Inc$13,3952n/a
David I Martin Music Guild of Nanm Inc$13,300223%
National Asian Artists Project Inc$13,20027%
Aeny - Spanish Artists in New York Inc$13,2002n/a
Stefanie Nelson Dance Group$12,80028%
Young New Yorkers Chorus Inc$12,200210%
She NYC Arts Inc$12,200211%
Harlem Opera Theater Inc$12,000127%
Salon Seance Productions Inc$12,0001n/a
The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective$12,00016%
Fada I Arts Inc$12,0001n/a
Lina Liu Artist Group a Nj Nonprofit Corporation$12,0001n/a
Obremskiworks Inc$12,0001n/a
Reentry Theater of Harlem$12,0001n/a
Korean Art Forum Inc$11,60025%
Experiential Orchestra Inc$11,60018%
Mano a Manocultura Mexicana Sin Fronteras/Mano a Manomexican Culture$11,100112%
Kweli Journal Inc$10,97025%
India Center$10,9002n/a
Torkomada Inc$10,5001n/a
Naked Angels Ltd$10,300211%
Musica de Camara Inc$10,0001n/a
Arts & Education Continuum Inc$9,80014%
While We Are Still Here Incorporated$9,600118%
Childrens Arts Carnival$9,60016%
New Heritage Theatre Group$9,0001n/a
Kindred Arts Inc$9,00014%
Calliope Brass Music Association Inc$8,800111%
Local Nature Lab$8,8001n/a
Pano Pra Manga Arts Inc$8,8001n/a
Angelica Patient Assistance Program$8,60014%
Interwoven Music Inc$8,5001n/a
La Fortaleza Community Development Corporation$8,4001n/a
Friends of Argentine Tango Inc$8,30018%
Born Dancing Inc$8,2321n/a
Pony Box Dance Theater$8,1001n/a
Isham Park Restoration Program 1970$8,000114%
New York Baroque Dance Co Inc$8,000111%
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc$8,00010%
Ripple Effect Artists Inc$8,0001n/a
Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens Inc$8,0001n/a
Charles Carlini Presents$8,000130%
Visual Echo Inc$8,0001n/a
Harlem Stories Project Inc$8,000141%
Ssim Inc$8,0001n/a
Freer Records Inc$8,00015%
Judson Memorial Church Inc$8,0001n/a
New York Mandolin Orchestra Inc$8,0001n/a
The Village Trip Inc$8,00018%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$8,00010%
Ring of Keys Coalition Inc$8,0001n/a
Moving Education Institute Inc$8,000123%
Cellunova Production Inc$8,000113%
New Harlem Renaissance Inc$8,0001n/a
Literature to Life Inc$8,00012%
Djoniba Dance & Drum Centre Inc$8,0001n/a
Jody Sperlingtime Lapse Danceinc$8,00014%
Ankhlave Arts Alliance$8,0001n/a
International Brazilian Opera Company$8,0001n/a
Center for Art Tradition and Cultural Heritage Inc$8,0001n/a
Balinese American Dance Theatre Ltd$8,0001n/a
Les Creative People in Action Inc$8,0001n/a
Ms Production Inc$8,0001n/a
Around the Block Inc$8,000133%
Hip Hop Education Center$8,00016%
Prelude Opera$8,0001n/a
Maureen Fleming Dance Foundation Incorporated$8,0001n/a
Transcend Choral & Community Music Foundation$8,0001n/a
Friends of Judson Inc$8,0001n/a
Roosevelt Island Concerts Inc$8,0001n/a
New York Kurdish Cultural Center Inc$8,000112%
Capoeira Center of New York Inc$7,8001n/a
Kinesis Project Inc$7,7001n/a
Thinkdance Inc$7,7001n/a
Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc$7,600115%
Young Bulgarian Voices New York Inc$7,6001n/a
Intertwine Arts Inc$7,60014%
Cuala Foundation Inc$7,500114%
Wavefield Inc$7,5001n/a
New Chamber Ballet Inc$7,400112%
White Knuckles Productions Inc$7,300118%
Ensemble Echappe Inc$7,3001n/a
China Residencies Inc$7,20014%
People's Theatre Project Inc$7,20010%
Ms Opera Production Inc$7,2001n/a
Ekmeles Inc$7,2001n/a
Qubit New Music$7,200110%
Protestra$7,200133%
Soho Shakespeare Company Inc$7,1001n/a
Babycastles Studio Inc$7,10019%
Developing Artists Theaters Company Inc$7,04819%
The Futuro Media Group$7,00010%
Tango for All Inc$7,0001n/a
Theatre Now New York Inc$6,910117%
New Women New Yorkers Inc$6,90013%
New York Live Arts Inc$6,90010%
National Queer Theater$6,90014%
New Light Theater Project Inc$6,80012%
Art Loisaida Foundation$6,8001n/a
Dmf Youth Inc$6,80016%
Concrete Timbre Inc$6,8001n/a
Life Story Club$6,80012%
Friends of the Erben Organ Inc$6,80011%
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Inc$6,70010%
The Relationship Performance And Arts Group Inc$6,6001n/a
Untitled Theatre Company No 61 Ltd$6,60019%
Carriage Trade Gallery Corp$6,60015%
Chinatown Soup Inc$6,6001n/a
The PlayGround Experiment Inc$6,510138%
Cathedral Church of St John the Divine$6,5001n/a
Internal Creations Inc$6,400110%
Amaterasu Za Inc$6,40015%
Loc07 Dance Puppet Theatre Company Inc$6,400113%
Morballet Inc$6,40015%
Symphony of the City of New York Inc$6,4001n/a
Rhymes With Opera Inc$6,4001n/a
Lyric Lab Inc The$6,3001n/a
The Pleiades Project$6,3001n/a
Layerhythm Productions Inc$6,20017%
Moustachecat Enterprises Inc$6,0501n/a
Paracademia Center Inc$6,000121%
Mason Holdings Theatre Inc$6,00012%
Prida Inc$6,0001n/a
The Anthropologists$6,0001n/a
No11 Productions Inc$6,0001n/a
The Brewing Dept Inc$6,0001n/a
Dances by Isadora Inc$6,0001n/a
Tosos II Inc$6,000115%
Dominican Collective Dance Ensamble Inc$5,7001n/a
The Private Theater Corp$5,70019%
Jazz Choreography Enterprises$5,600119%
Lesser America Inc$5,6001n/a
The Amoralistsinc$5,600113%
Christine Melton-Simpson Pka Christine Melton-Jordan$5,6001n/a
New Heritage Theatre Group$5,5001n/a
Xfr Collective Inc$5,4001n/a
Advent Lutheran Church$5,3881n/a
Arts And Ecology Inc$5,300115%
Melodia Womens Choir of NYC Inc$5,289110%
Dance Parade Inc$5,23212%
Dominican Writers Assoc Inc$5,20019%
Jack Music Inc Jack Quartet$5,20011%
Seven Stories Institute$5,1001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 25 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 149 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $208,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Performance Zone Inc: $89,900 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWashington Heights Chamber Orchestra Corporation: $67,700 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetLa Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriquena Inc: $54,800 over 6y, 46% of budgetDarrah Carr Dance Inc: $54,332 over 7y, 48% of budgetNy Bard Wo Association Inc: $53,400 over 7y, 30% of budgetNew Amsterdam Musical Association: $51,200 over 6y, 20% of budgetNYC Kidsfest Inc: $43,700 over 4y, 14% of budgetPluma Poetica del Arte Inc: $43,200 over 5y, 62% of budgetHarlem Arts Alliance: $42,600 over 2y, 12% of budgetAfrican Diaspora Film Festival Inc: $41,500 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetDances for a Variable Population Inc: $41,200 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetHarlem Presents Inc: $40,400 over 5y, 32% of budgetThe Stonewall Chorale Inc: $38,789 over 5y, 11% of budgetYaffa Cultural Arts Inc: $38,700 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetThe Harlem Chamber Players Inc: $38,600 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetJazz Drama Program: $38,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetEast Winds Inc: $38,100 over 5y, 22% of budgetSeven Stories Institute: $36,998 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetPan American Musical Art Research Inc: $36,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetTe Ao Mana Inc: $35,200 over 4y, 67% of budgetIceberg New Music Inc: $34,189 over 5y, 36% of budgetHarlem Needle Arts Inc: $34,100 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetThe Duke Ellington Center for the Arts Inc: $34,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetCenter for Traditional Music and Dance Inc: $33,350 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Latin American Workshop Inc: $32,800 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNew York Scandia Symphony: $32,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetUp Theater Company Inc: $32,400 over 5y, 13% of budgetJapan Folk Dance Inst of Ny: $30,400 over 4y, 15% of budgetLos Pleneros de la 21 Inc: $30,300 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetKeoni Movement Arts Inc: $30,100 over 4y, 18% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $28,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHelping Our People Evolve Incorporated: $27,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetChinese Musical Arts Inc: $27,100 over 3y, 43% of budgetCerddorion NYC Inc: $27,089 over 4y, 34% of budgetTheatre Tweed Inc: $26,700 over 3y, 25% of budgetCoopdanza Inc: $26,700 over 3y, 43% of budgetMatthew Westerby Dance Company Inc: $26,032 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetAgm Theater Company: $25,100 over 3y, 22% of budgetInternational Communications Assoc: $24,400 over 3y, 13% of budgetGotham Early Music Scene Inc: $24,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetClark Center NYC Inc: $23,700 over 3y, 45% of budgetInwood Art Works Inc: $23,300 over 2y, 12% of budgetBarrio Independent Productions Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 35% of budgetEarth Celebrationsinc: $21,800 over 3y, 13% of budgetThe Latino Experimental Fantastic Latino Theater Inc: $21,600 over 2y, 31% of budgetCentro Civico Cultural Dominicano Inc: $21,600 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetComposers Now Inc: $21,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 149.

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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.

West Harlem Development CorporationNY49.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc

How much does Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc give?
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc reported 67 itemized grants totaling $645,000, out of $1,775,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 83 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (99%), Environment (1%), International (0%).
Who are Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Fractured Atlas Inc ($208k), The Performance Zone Inc ($90k), Gatekeepers Collective Inc ($78k).
Does Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include West Harlem Development Corporation, Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc, New Music USA Inc.
Where is Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc based?
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc is based in NY.

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 267 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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