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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.

$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$388kCommunity Improvement$9k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $72,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $125,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,400 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAZZ ARTS PROJECT$10,000
PREMIER THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS ART COUNCIL$10,000
MONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS$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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%JAZZ ARTS PROJECT: $13k → 6%ARCADIAN CHORALE: $7k → 8%MONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS: $11k → 6%ARCADIAN CHORALE: $7k → 8%MONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS: $11k → 6%MONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS: $11k → 6%PHOENIX PRODUCTIONS: $10k → 6%JAZZ ARTS PROJECT: $10k → 6%MONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS: $10k → 6%Monmouth Civic Chorus: $10k → 6%MONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS: $10k → 6%Monmouth Civic Chorus: $10k → 6%JAZZ ARTS PROJECT: $10k → 6%PHOENIX PRODUCTIONS: $10k → 6%PHOENIX PRODUCTIONS: $10k → 6%Phoenix Productions: $9k → 6%Phoenix Productions: $9k → 6%RED BANK RIVERCENTER: $9k → 6%JAZZ ARTS PROJECT: $9k → 6%JAZZ ARTS PROJECT: $8k → 6%JAZZ ARTS PROJECT: $8k → 6%MONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS: $8k → 6%Jazz Arts Projects: $8k → 6%Jazz Arts Projects: $8k → 6%PHOENIX PRODUCTIONS: $8k → 6%Company of Dance Arts: $7k → 6%Company of Dance Arts: $7k → 6%Center Players: $6k → 6%ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS ART COUNCIL: $10k → 6%Center Players: $6k → 6%ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS ART COUNCIL: $10k → 6%Premier Theatre Co: $6k → 6%ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS ART COUNCIL: $8k → 6%PREMIER THEATRE COMPANY: $10k → 6%PREMIER THEATRE COMPANY: $9k → 6%WOODEN WALLS PUBLIC ARTS PROJECT: $7k → 6%ASBURY PARK ARTS COUNCIL: $6k → 6%MIDDLETOWN ARTS CENTER: $6k → 6%ROCKIT LIVE FOUNDATION: $6k → 6%HOLMDEL THEATRE COMPANY: $6k → 6%HOLMDEL THEATRE COMPANY: $6k → 6%HELLENIC DANCERS OF NJ: $6k → 6%GUILD OF CREATIVE ART: $8k → 6%GUILD OF CREATIVE ART: $8k → 6%GUILD OF CREATIVE ART: $6k → 6%COMPANY OF DANCE ARTS: $6k → 6%JERSEY SHORE ARTS CENTER: $6k → 6%COMPANY OF DANCE ARTS: $6k → 6%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$340k · 10 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$340k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-26%

Still filing today

90%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MC
    MONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +125%
  • JAZZ ARTS PROJECT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +98%
  • AH
    ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS ARTS COUNCIL - A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SI
    Special Improvement District Borough of Red Bank Inc Red Bank RiverCenter
    one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +3%
  • WW
    WOODEN WALLS MURAL PROJECT A NJ
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • PT
    Premier Theatre Co
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
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
Blue Curtain a Nj NonProfit Corporation

Entertainment

Arts & Culture
2
Guttenberg Arts a Nj Nonprofit Corp
Arts & Culture
3
Jersey City Ballet Theater

Ballet theater

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4
Ocean City Arts Center

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Arts On Division a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

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

Arts & Culture
6
Raritan River Concerts Inc

Raritan River Festival - Chamber musicians perform concerts in small settings in and around historic Hunterdon County, NJ. Annual attendance of 1,000 plus residents.

Arts & Culture
7
Sussex County Arts & Heritage Counc

Local arts development

Arts & Culture
8
Harborside Center for the Arts Inc
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9
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
10
Mizner Park Cultural Arts Association Inc
Philanthropy
11
Haven Arts Theatre

We are a theatre company. We provide opportunities for local theatre artists and high quality productions for the public.

Arts & Culture
12
Algonquin Arts a New Jersey Nonprofit C

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asbury Park Arts Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS INC: $79,876 · Arts & CultureMONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS INCJAZZ ARTS PROJECT INC: $73,396 · Arts & CultureJAZZ ARTS PROJECT INCATLANTIC HIGHLANDS ARTS COUNCIL - A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $27,500 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC HIGHLANDS ARTS COUNCIL - A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATIONASBURY PARK THEATER COMPANY: $18,500 · Arts & CultureASBURY PARK THEATER COMPANYCENTER PLAYERS INC: $12,382 · Arts & CultureHOLMDEL THEATRE COMPANY INC: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $30,600 · Arts & Culture+5 morePHOENIX PRODUCTIONS INC: $55,648 · OtherPHOENIX PRODUCTIONS INCCOMPANY OF DANCE ARTS: $25,594 · OtherCOMPANY OF DANCE ARTSGUILD OF CREATIVE ART: $21,000 · OtherGUILD OF CREATIVE ARTTHE ARCADIAN CHORALE INC: $14,340 · OtherTHE ARCADIAN CHORALE INCPremier Theatre Co: $6,129 · OtherHELLENIC DANCERS OF NJ: $5,700 · OtherMiddletown Twp Cultural Arts: $5,693 · OtherSpecial Improvement District Borough of Red Bank Inc Red Bank RiverCenter: $8,750 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$254,254Other$134,104Community Improvement$8,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONMOUTH CIVIC CHORUS INC: $79,876 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetJAZZ ARTS PROJECT INC: $73,396 over 8y, 18% of budgetPHOENIX PRODUCTIONS INC: $55,648 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetATLANTIC HIGHLANDS ARTS COUNCIL - A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $27,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetCOMPANY OF DANCE ARTS: $25,594 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetGUILD OF CREATIVE ART: $21,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetASBURY PARK THEATER COMPANY: $18,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCENTER PLAYERS INC: $12,382 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetHOLMDEL THEATRE COMPANY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSpecial Improvement District Borough of Red Bank Inc Red Bank RiverCenter: $8,750 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWOODEN WALLS MURAL PROJECT A NJ: $6,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRockit Live Foundation Inc: $6,100 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOCEAN GROVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP CULTURAL AND ARTS COUNCIL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASBURY PARK ARTS COUNCIL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

Oceanfirst FoundationPrinceton Area Commun…Amazonsmile Foundation
Oceanfirst FoundationNJ21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Monmouth County Arts Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monmouth County Arts Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Jazz Arts Project Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to Monmouth County Arts Council Inc?

Find your warmest path to Monmouth County Arts Council Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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