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New York Council for the Humanities

The mission of humanities new york is to strengthen civil society and the bonds of community, using the humanities to foster engaged inquiry and dialogue around social and cultural concerns.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.9MEducation$274kCrime & Legal$271kYouth Development$74kPublic Benefit$58kCivil Rights$57kEnvironment$54kCommunity Improvement$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 73 grants below total $941,166 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,134,920 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $193,754 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 $10k37 grants · $299k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $642k
$9,975
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIETY OF FELLOWS & HEYMAN CENTER COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$26,450
BARD COLLEGE$26,400
ONE BREATH RISING$25,000
HERSTORY WRITERS WORKSHOP$25,000
VOICE BUFFALO INC$25,000
ART START INCORPORATED$25,000
CIVIC ENSEMBLE$25,000
CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK$25,000
DRAMA CLUB$25,000
PAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT ON BEHALF OF ARCHIVE-BASED CREATIVE ARTS$25,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES$25,000
PRISON COMMUNITIES INTERNATIONAL INC REHABILITATION FOR THE ARTS$25,000
REENTRY THEATER OF HARLEM$25,000
MUSIC ON THE INSIDE INC$25,000
ARTISTS ALLIANCE ON BEHALF OF ONE WHALES TALE$24,950
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOVE QUEST FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%HAITI CULTURAL EXCHANGE: $10k → 20%PROJECT OPEN: $6k → 17%CENTRO CIVICO CULTURAL DOMINICANO: $6k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 70 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
113

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+12%

Still filing today

97%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k 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 & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • HW
    HERSTORY WRITERS NETWORK INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +75%
  • MO
    MUSIC ON THE INSIDE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $57k · revenue +131%
  • CE
    CIVIC ENSEMBLE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $57k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • SA
    STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • SS
    SING SING PRISON MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +319%
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LONG ISLAND ANTIQUITIES
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +24%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
3
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
4
Hudson River Museum of Westchester

Situated on the banks of the hudson river in yonkers, new york, the hudson river museum's mission is to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.

Arts & Culture
5
Nassau County Museum of Art

The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…

Arts & Culture
6
Newcomb Historical Museum

The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.

Arts & Culture
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
8
The Bronx Council On the Arts Incorporated

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
10
The Hip Hop Museum

The hip hop museum preserves the past, celebrates the present, and leads the global future of hip hop, inspiring, educating, and empowering all.

Arts & Culture
11
The Historical Society of Rockland

The Historical Society of Rockland County is a museum and educational organization dedicated to engaging diverse audiences in a dynamic dialogue about the rich historical heritage of the county.

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12
The Parrish Art Museum Inc

The museum encourages an appreciation of modern and contemporary art through exhibitions, education, and public programs for diverse audiences.inspired by the natural setting and historical artistic community of long island's east end, the…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art Effect of the Hudson Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cayena Press. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArts and Performance Organi…Social Justice Advocacy Org…Specialized K-12 SchoolsAsian Cultural Education Ce…Volunteer Fire ServicesRegional Economic Developme…Youth Development and Commu…Family Philanthropic Founda…Professional and Hobby Asso…Jewish Community SupportHistoric Preservation & Mus…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr20%24%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr14%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr20%25%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr14%23%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/223
the rest of the field
11%
9,961/94,036

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

215 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. 215 of the 223 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
60
Early backer (in before they grew)
212/215
Grantees still filing
132/215
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+119 more — $2,168,170 · Arts & Culture+119 moreCIVIC ENSEMBLE INC — $56,500 · OtherCIVIC ENSEMBLE INCCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC — $50,000 · OtherCORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK — $50,000 · OtherONE BREATH RISING INC — $50,000 · OtherNew York Folklore Society Inc — $40,500 · OtherBUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $40,000 · OtherThe History Center in Tompkins County Inc — $35,000 · Other+48 more — $683,766 · Other+48 moreBARD COLLEGE — $51,400 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $44,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $32,556 · EducationCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC — $21,500 · EducationANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES — $20,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $19,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $16,500 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationNORTH SIDE LEARNING CENTER OF SYRACUSE — $10,000 · EducationURBAN WORD NYC INC — $10,000 · EducationLONG ISLAND TRADITIONS INC — $10,000 · EducationTeachers College Columbia University — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $18,300 · EducationVOICE Buffalo Inc — $45,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN INC — $32,500 · Community ImprovementNIAGARA FALLS UNDERGROUND RAILROAD HERITAGE COMMISSION INC — $29,585 · Community ImprovementMichigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission Inc — $8,000 · Community ImprovementMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET — $30,000 · EnvironmentSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $8,997 · EnvironmentPAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalARTISTIC NOISE INC — $20,024 · Crime & LegalTHE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalAll Kings Project Inc — $49,488 · Health
Arts & Culture$2,168,170Other$1,005,766Education$293,256Community Improvement$115,085Environment$58,997Crime & Legal$55,024Health$49,488

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHERSTORY WRITERS NETWORK INC — $65,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetMUSIC ON THE INSIDE INC — $56,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetCIVIC ENSEMBLE INC — $56,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetART START INC — $55,000 over 3y, 1.8% 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 budgetBARD COLLEGE — $51,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK — $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $49,550 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAll Kings Project Inc — $49,488 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetEXPLORE BUFFALO INC — $46,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetVOICE Buffalo Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 9.3% 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 budgetCITY LORE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE — $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% 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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $32,556 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN INC — $32,500 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL VIDEO CENTER INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNIAGARA FALLS UNDERGROUND RAILROAD HERITAGE COMMISSION INC — $29,585 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM — $29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $29,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY — $28,870 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION — $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Federation of Ulster County Inc — $27,500 over 2y, 3.1% 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 budgetALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART — $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRENSSELAER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCASITA MARIA INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDRAMA CLUB INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSTELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEchoes of Incarceration Inc — $24,400 over 1y, 18% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Hudson Herita…The William G Pomeroy…JM McDonald Foundatio…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…Preservation League o…Shelley & Donald Rubi…The Andrew W Mellon F…Brooklyn Community Fo…The Howard Gilman Fou…Community Foundation …The Community Foundat…
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

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 New York Council for the Humanities 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
93report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 223 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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