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· Public charity

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc

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

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
67
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.7MEnvironment$36kInternational$15kHealth$9kEmployment$7k
02FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 67 grants below total $645,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,775,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,130,750 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k44 grants · $357k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $288k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ART SONG PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEW YORK$16,000
4 WHEEL CITY$16,000
THE GATEKEEPERS COLLECTIVE INC$16,000
THEATRETWEED INC$12,000
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN JAZZ INC$12,000
DHARMA ROAD PRODUCTIONS INC$12,000
HELPING OUR PEOPLE EVOLVE INCORPORATED$12,000
JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$12,000
DUKE ELLINGTON FOR THE ARTS INC$12,000
URBAN GARAGE INC$12,000
PLUMA POETICA DEL ARTE INC$12,000
DARRAH CARR DANCE INC$12,000
CHINESE MUSICAL ARTS INC$12,000
TE AO MANA$12,000
OBREMSKIWORKS INC$12,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VITA STORY CLUB INC: $7k → 20%NYLAUGHS INC: $7k → 17%CENTRO CIVICO CULTURAL DOMINICANO: $8k → 17%CHARLES CARLINI PRESENTS INC: $8k → 17%CENTRO CIVICO CULTURAL DOMINICANODOMINICAN CIVIC CULTURAL CENTER: $7k → 17%CENTRO CIVICO CULTURAL DOMINICANODOMINICAN CIVIC CULTURAL CENTER: $7k → 17%KAISERS ROOM INC: $7k → 17%FUNDACIN YOLANDA LAPREA INC: $8k → 17%FUNDACIN YOLANDA LAPREA: $8k → 17%KAISER'S ROOM INC: $8k → 17%FUNDACIN YOLANDA LAPREA: $6k → 17%NYC KIDSFEST INC: $15k → 17%NYC KIDSFEST: $10k → 17%NYC KIDSFEST: $10k → 17%NYC KIDSFEST: $9k → 17%NEW WOMEN NEW YORKERS INC: $7k → 17%RIPPLE EFFECT ARTISTS INC: $8k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 133 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

133
114

Total granted

$3.8M
$838k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+10%

Still filing today

62%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthReligionCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $208k · revenue +57%
  • TP
    THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $90k · revenue +166%
  • LC
    LA CASA DE LA HERENCIA CULTURAL PUERTORRIQUENA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +181% · 46% of their budget

Funded once

  • UP
    UNIQUE PROJECTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +72%
  • TU
    The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +4%
  • FI
    FADA I ARTS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
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.

04Its 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.

1
Fjk Dance Inc

A Contemporary Dance Company Based in New York City

Arts & Culture
2
Alma Nyc Dance Company Inc
Arts & Culture
3
New Music Theatre Project Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
New Dance Alliance Inc

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…

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5
Planet Arts Inc

Cultural and educational performances

Arts & Culture
6
Theatre Three Collaborative Inc

Cultural and educational performances

—
7
All Out Arts Inc

Cultural-educational, via multi-discipline arts hosting for the general public, and technical support for arts professionals.

—
8
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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9
The Tank Ltd

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Chelsea Opera Inc

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,…

Arts & Culture
11
Anonymous Ensemble Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Herman Cornejo the State of the Art

To creatively explore the intersection

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Chamber Ballet Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

177 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

25
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
73
Early backer (in before they grew)
163/177
Grantees still filing
113/177
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $208,400 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC+99 more: $2,076,945 · Arts & Culture+99 moreTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $89,900 · OtherGATEKEEPERS COLLECTIVE INC: $77,500 · OtherBLACKBERRY PRODUCTIONS INC: $64,400 · Other+83 more: $1,585,444 · Other+83 moreNYC KIDSFEST INC: $43,700 · Human ServicesCENTRO CIVICO CULTURAL DOMINICANO INC: $21,600 · Human ServicesFUNDACION YOLANDA LAPREA INC: $21,500 · Human ServicesNYLAUGHS INC: $15,348 · Human ServicesKAISER'S ROOM INC: $14,400 · Human ServicesRIPPLE EFFECT ARTISTS INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesCHARLES CARLINI PRESENTS: $8,000 · Human ServicesTHE DUKE ELLINGTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $34,000 · EducationTorkomada Inc: $10,500 · EducationKEONI MOVEMENT ARTS INC: $30,100 · HealthANGELICA PATIENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $8,600 · HealthJazz Foundation of America Inc: $28,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropySUKKAHWOOD INC: $27,300 · Religion
Arts & Culture$2,285,345Other$1,817,244Human Services$132,548Education$44,500Health$38,700Philanthropy$36,000Religion$27,300

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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
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 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 ↗

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 Developme…Alliance of Resident …New Music USA IncDance Service New Yor…The Howard Gilman Fou…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Aaron Copland Fun…The Harkness Foundati…The Amphion Foundatio…Fractured Atlas IncLily Auchincloss Foun…City Parks Foundation…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 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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