· Public charity
Monmouth County Arts Council Inc
Monmouth county arts council provides programs and services that support the practice, presence, and influence of the arts and of artists throughout monmouth county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $72,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,400 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS | $10,000 |
| ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS ART COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| JAZZ ARTS PROJECT | $10,000 |
| PREMIER THEATRE COMPANY | $10,000 |
| GUILD OF CREATIVE ART | $7,500 |
| ARCADIAN CHORALE | $7,300 |
| ROCKIT LIVE FOUNDATION | $6,100 |
| HOLMDEL THEATRE COMPANY | $6,000 |
| HELLENIC DANCERS OF NJ | $5,700 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of your 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 +14% since the first grant, against -30% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- MCMONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +106%
JAZZ ARTS PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +39%- AHATLANTIC HIGHLANDS ARTS COUNCIL - A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- SISpecial Improvement District Borough of Red Bank Inc Red Bank RiverCentergraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +37%
- WWWOODEN WALLS MURAL PROJECT A NJone grant, 2022 · $7k
- PTPremier Theatre Coone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
Entertainment
The mission of the organization is to enrich the individuals and communities of southern new jersey by connecting those with interest in creative, performing and visual arts.
Ballet theater
Arts On Division promotes the arts and cultural activities in Somerville and Somerset County NJ. Activities include the Tour of Somerville, Music performances, Art Shows, event and Performing Arts
Local arts development
To make the arts accessible and advance education through high quality, diverse and affordable performances and programs for all audiences at the jersey shore. To foster appreciation of the arts and promote lifelong learning, particularly…
We are a theatre company. We provide opportunities for local theatre artists and high quality productions for the public.
Raritan River Festival - Chamber musicians perform concerts in small settings in and around historic Hunterdon County, NJ. Annual attendance of 1,000 plus residents.
classes and performances in the fine and performing arts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Grove Historic Preservation Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Special Improvement District Borough of Red Bank Inc Red Bank RiverCenter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 19 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
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 MONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS ARTS COUNCIL - A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMPANY OF DANCE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GUILD OF CREATIVE ART ↗
- Who funds ASBURY PARK THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CENTER PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLMDEL THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Special Improvement District Borough of Red Bank Inc Red Bank RiverCenter ↗
- Who funds WOODEN WALLS MURAL PROJECT A NJ ↗
- Who funds Rockit Live Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP CULTURAL AND ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN GROVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ASBURY PARK ARTS COUNCIL 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: Oceanfirst Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Monmouth County Arts 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jazz Arts Project Inc — 8% of income from government
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.
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