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New York Council for the Humanities

Humanities new york strengthens civil society through conversations that bring people together to remember the past, imagine new possibilities, and build a shared future.

$445k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
72
Organizations funded FY2024
54%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 83
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 54% of the organizations New York Council for the Humanities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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 arriving19$445k11%
FY202472$915k54%
FY202360$819k62%
FY202234$318k82%
FY202183$1.1M65%
FY202056$556k86%
FY20195$32k80%
FY20188$51k100%
100% 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$2.9MEducation$274kCrime & Legal$271kYouth Development$74kPublic Benefit$58kCivil Rights$57kEnvironment$54kCommunity Improvement$53kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Herstory Writers Network Inc$90,00044%
Music on the Inside Inc$81,500416%
Civic Ensemble Inc$81,500411%
Art Start Inc$80,00042%
Bard College$76,40030%
One Breath Rising Inc$75,0003n/a
Center for Community Alternatives Inc$75,00030%
Rehabilitation Through the Arts Inc$75,00033%
Correctional Association of New York$75,00032%
All Kings Project Inc$73,97636%
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All grantees of New York Council for the Humanities by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Herstory Writers Network Inc$90,00044%
Music on the Inside Inc$81,500416%
Civic Ensemble Inc$81,500411%
Art Start Inc$80,00042%
Bard College$76,40030%
One Breath Rising Inc$75,0003n/a
Center for Community Alternatives Inc$75,00030%
Rehabilitation Through the Arts Inc$75,00033%
Correctional Association of New York$75,00032%
All Kings Project Inc$73,97636%
VOICE Buffalo Inc$70,00039%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$68,95030%
The Whaling Museum Society Inc$52,00044%
Huguenot Historical Society New Paltz Ny$51,50042%
Drama Club Inc$50,00023%
Reentry Theater of Harlem$50,0002n/a
Parole Preparation Project Inc$50,00022%
Echoes of Incarceration Inc$48,800218%
Explore Buffalo Inc$46,50053%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York$44,00040%
Artists Alliance Inc$41,525211%
New York Folklore Society Inc$40,50037%
Artistic Noise Inc$40,04824%
Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society$40,00031%
Thomas Cole Historic House$40,00031%
City Lore Inc$40,00030%
Genesee Country Museum$36,50030%
Historic Saranac Lake$35,50025%
Iroquois Indian Museum$35,14545%
The History Center in Tompkins County Inc$35,00025%
Roots Wounds Words Inc$35,000218%
Friends of Ganondagan Inc$32,50029%
Museum at Eldridge Street$30,00021%
The Jewish Museum$30,00030%
Educational Video Center Inc$30,00031%
Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Commission Inc$29,58526%
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem$29,00031%
Lower East Side Tenement Museum$29,00030%
The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County$28,87023%
Jewish Federation of Ulster County Inc$27,50023%
The Fort Ticonderoga Association$27,50020%
Morris Jumel Mansion Inc$26,50026%
Hudson River Maritime Museum$26,50031%
Friends of Alice Austen House Inc$25,85035%
Putnam History Museum$25,50034%
Onondaga Historical Association$25,00021%
Albany Institute of History and Art$25,00021%
Stella Adler Studio of Acting$25,00010%
Casita Maria Inc$25,00021%
Rensselaer County Historical Society Inc$25,00024%
Magical Urbanists Inc$24,9501n/a
Voices of a People's History of the United States$24,00027%
Lewis H Latimer Fund Inc$24,00024%
Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County$23,00030%
Siren-Protectors of the Rainforest$22,31534%
Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley Inc$21,956323%
Cave Canem Foundation Inc$21,50022%
Colonial Dames of America$21,25022%
Syracuse University$20,00010%
New York International Childrens Film Festival Inc$20,00013%
Traditional Arts in Upstate New York In$20,00015%
Center for Transformative Action$20,00011%
Seward House Museum$20,00010%
The Society for the Preservation of Weeksville & Bedford-Stuyvesant$20,00020%
American Museum of the Moving Image$20,00020%
Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden Inc$20,00020%
Sing Sing Prison Museum$20,00013%
Anthology Film Archives$20,00021%
Museum Association of New York$20,00014%
Historic Cherry Hill$20,00013%
Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc$20,00021%
Buffalo Media Resources Inc$20,00023%
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc$20,00020%
Adirondack Architectural Heritage Inc$20,00011%
Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities$20,00012%
Brooklyn Public Library$19,00020%
Oneida Community Mansion House$19,00021%
Fort Greene Park Conservancy Inc$19,00021%
Albany County Historical Association$18,50017%
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association$17,25023%
Cayuga Museum of History & Art Inc$16,50014%
Greater Hudson Heritage Network$16,50015%
St Lawrence University$16,50020%
Storyline Inc$16,50013%
1st Amendment-1st Vote Inc$16,0002n/a
While We Are Still Here Incorporated$15,575210%
Fullerton Mansion Center for Culture and History Inc$15,50027%
Schoharie River Center Inc$15,00015%
Franklin Furnace Archive Inc$15,00014%
National Women's Hall of Fame Inc$15,00011%
The Historical Society of the New York Courts$15,00015%
Western New York Public Broadcasting Association$15,00010%
Glens Falls-Queensbury Historical Assoc Inc$15,00015%
The CORA Foundation Inc$15,000112%
Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Regioninc$14,85516%
The Lower Adirondack Regional Center for History$14,00029%
Literary Freedom Project Inc$14,000213%
Queens Historical Society$13,500121%
Rochester Oratorio Society Inc$12,59023%
Love Quest Foundation$11,787111%
Irish American Heritage Museum$11,75024%
Parachute Literary Arts Inc$11,5001n/a
John Brown Lives Inc$11,40014%
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance$11,00016%
Aquila Theatre Company$10,00011%
Five Myles Inc$10,00015%
Adirondack Historical Association$10,00010%
Urban Word NYC Inc$10,00011%
The Niagara Arts and Cultural Center Inc$10,00012%
She NYC Arts Inc$10,00015%
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center$10,00011%
North Side Learning Center of Syracuse$10,00012%
New Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre$10,00011%
The Hunter College Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Radio Diaries Inc$10,00011%
Mid Atlantic Association of Museums$10,00014%
Barry & Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Inc$10,00010%
Center for Photography at Woodstock$10,00011%
Mount Gulian Society$10,00013%
Geneva Historical Society$10,00010%
FASNY Museum of Firefighting$10,00011%
Haiti Cultural Exchange Inc$10,0001n/a
Greater Oneonta Historical Society$10,00015%
Center for Independent Productions Inc$10,00018%
Endangered Language Alliance Inc$10,00018%
Long Island Children's Museum$10,00010%
Strawtown Art & Garden Studio Inc$10,00017%
Downtown Community Television Center Inc$10,00010%
International Film Seminars Inc$10,00013%
The Art Effect of the Hudson Valley Inc$10,00010%
The Futuro Media Group$10,00010%
Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum$10,00010%
Old Fort Niagara Association Inc$10,00011%
African Film Festivalinc$10,00013%
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning$10,00010%
Katonah Museum of Art$10,00011%
Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling$10,00011%
Committee to Save the Bird Homestead Inc$10,0001n/a
The Noble Maritime Collection$10,00012%
Ujima Company Incorporated$10,0001n/a
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages$10,00011%
The Erie Canal Museum$10,00012%
The Waterfront Museum$10,000110%
Laboratory for Icon and Idiom Inc$10,00012%
American Civic Association Inc$10,00011%
The National Federation for Just Communities of Wny Inc$10,00016%
Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre Inc$10,00011%
Pan Am Museum Foundation Inc$10,00014%
Bric Arts Media Bklyn Inc$10,00010%
The Possibility Project Inc$10,00012%
Westchester Ballet Company Inc$10,00014%
Columbia County Historical Society Inc$10,00014%
Epic Theatre Center Inc$10,00011%
Arts Mid-Hudson Inc$10,00011%
CultureNow Inc$10,000118%
Long Island Traditions Inc$10,00016%
Artists in Residence Inc$10,00012%
Museum Hue Inc$10,00016%
The Center for Jewish History Inc$10,00010%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust$10,00010%
Staten Island Historical Society Incd/B/A Historic Richmond Town$10,00011%
Shake on the Lake Inc$10,00014%
Wmht Educational Telecommunications Inc$10,00010%
Wendys Subway Inc$10,00014%
Waterwell Productions Inc$10,00011%
Buffalo Arts Studio$10,00011%
Peace of the City Ministries Inc$10,00012%
Teachers College Columbia University$10,00010%
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation$10,00011%
Visual AIDS for the Arts Inc$10,0001n/a
New Art Publications Inc$10,00010%
New Heritage Theatre Group$10,00012%
Corning Painted Post Historical Society$10,00016%
Seneca Nation of Indians$9,9991n/a
Talking Rivers Inc$9,9751n/a
De-Cruit Inc$9,90015%
Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History$9,85012%
Camera News Inc$9,60011%
Safe Harbors of the Hudson Inc$9,55410%
Fenton Historical Society of Jamestown New York$9,50015%
Seven Generations of Stewards Inc$9,4251n/a
Hudson Area Association Library$9,30011%
Buffalo String Works Inc$9,00011%
The Plimpton Foundation Inc$9,0001n/a
Canopy Canopy Canopy Inc$9,00011%
The Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York Inc$9,00010%
North Country Children's Museum$9,00010%
The Educational Alliance Inc$9,00010%
Film Forum Inc$9,00010%
Poetry Society of America$9,00011%
Genesee Valley Council on the Arts Inc$9,00011%
Notch Theatre Company$9,00014%
New York Botanical Garden$8,99710%
Women's Housing & Economic Development Corporation$8,95010%
The Coney Island History Project 1$8,91515%
Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation$8,50013%
Andover Central School District Obo Cattaraugus-Allegany Teacher Center$8,2001n/a
Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission Inc$8,00011%
Schoharie County Historical Society$7,50017%
Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum$7,50016%
Yates County Genealogical and Historical Society$7,04215%
Western New York Library Resources Council$6,97511%
The Supergeographic Ensemble Theatre Inc$6,81017%
The Olana Partnership$6,55010%
The Hanford Mills Museum at East Meredith$6,50011%
Young Audiences of Western New York Inc D/B/A Arts for Learning Wny$6,50011%
New York Live Arts Inc$6,50010%
Lily Dale Assembly$6,50010%
Cayena Press$6,500129%
Friends of Womens Rights National Historical Park Inc$6,5001n/a
Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Inc$6,50013%
Center for the Arts at Ithaca Inc$6,50010%
Art in General Inc$6,50011%
South Central Regional Library Council$6,48011%
Ithaca Community Radio Inc$6,3941n/a
Fund for the City of New York Inc$6,06610%
Long Island University$6,00010%
Project Open Inc$6,00014%
Kitchen Theatre Company Inc$5,85011%
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc$5,85010%
Centro Civico Cultural Dominicano Inc$5,50015%
The Southworth Library Association$5,47512%
Fractured Atlas Inc$5,09010%
Media Alliance Inc$5,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

New York Council for the Humanities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHerstory Writers Network Inc: $90,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetMusic on the Inside Inc: $81,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetCivic Ensemble Inc: $81,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetArt Start Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetBard College: $76,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Community Alternatives Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRehabilitation Through the Arts Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCorrectional Association of New York: $75,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAll Kings Project Inc: $73,976 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetVOICE Buffalo Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetNew York Foundation for the Arts Inc: $68,950 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Whaling Museum Society Inc: $52,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetHuguenot Historical Society New Paltz Ny: $51,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetDrama Club Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetParole Preparation Project Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEchoes of Incarceration Inc: $48,800 over 2y, 18% of budgetExplore Buffalo Inc: $46,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArtists Alliance Inc: $41,525 over 2y, 11% of budgetNew York Folklore Society Inc: $40,500 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetArtistic Noise Inc: $40,048 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBuffalo & Erie County Historical Society: $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThomas Cole Historic House: $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCity Lore Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGenesee Country Museum: $36,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHistoric Saranac Lake: $35,500 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetIroquois Indian Museum: $35,145 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetThe History Center in Tompkins County Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetRoots Wounds Words Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFriends of Ganondagan Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetMuseum at Eldridge Street: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEducational Video Center Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNiagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Commission Inc: $29,585 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetThe National Jazz Museum in Harlem: $29,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLower East Side Tenement Museum: $29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County: $28,870 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJewish Federation of Ulster County Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetThe Fort Ticonderoga Association: $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMorris Jumel Mansion Inc: $26,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetHudson River Maritime Museum: $26,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFriends of Alice Austen House Inc: $25,850 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetPutnam History Museum: $25,500 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetOnondaga Historical Association: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAlbany Institute of History and Art: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetStella Adler Studio of Acting: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCasita Maria Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRensselaer County Historical Society Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 3.9% 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 200.

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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.

Greater Hudson Heritage NetworkNY68.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Hudson Heritage Network · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Preservation League of New York State · Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region 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 New York Council for the Humanities

How much does New York Council for the Humanities give?
New York Council for the Humanities reported 19 grants totaling $444,656 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 83 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does New York Council for the Humanities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (76%), Education (7%), Crime & Legal (7%).
Who are New York Council for the Humanities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Herstory Writers Network Inc ($90k), Music on the Inside Inc ($82k), Civic Ensemble Inc ($82k).
Does New York Council for the Humanities fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as New York Council for the Humanities?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Hudson Heritage Network, The William G Pomeroy Foundation, JM McDonald Foundation Inc.
Where is New York Council for the Humanities based?
New York Council for the Humanities 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 225 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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