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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $438k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIVIC ENSEMBLE$25,000
MUSIC ON THE INSIDE$25,000
VOICE BUFFALO INC$25,000
ONE BREATH RISING$25,000
PAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT$25,000
DRAMA CLUB$25,000
REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC$25,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES$25,000
REENTRY THEATER OF HARLEM$25,000
HERSTORY WRITERS WORKSHOP$25,000
BARD COLLEGE - BARD PRISON INITIATIVE$25,000
ART START INCORPORATED$25,000
CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK$25,000
MAGICAL URBANISTS INC$24,950
ALL KINGS PROJECT INC$24,488
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 75 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
147

Total granted

$2.7M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+5%

Still filing today

96%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • HW
    HERSTORY WRITERS NETWORK INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +75%
  • MO
    MUSIC ON THE INSIDE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $82k · revenue +131%
  • CE
    CIVIC ENSEMBLE INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $82k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • SA
    STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +13%
  • NY
    NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS FILM FESTIVAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +10%
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
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
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
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 New York City Police Museum

The organization is dedicated to preserving the history of the new york city police department. through its exhibitions, collections, and educational programming, the museum illustrates how the policies and culture of the nypd have evolved…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts Mid-Hudson Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

216 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. 216 of the 225 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
59
Early backer (in before they grew)
213/216
Grantees still filing
131/216
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HERSTORY WRITERS NETWORK INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ON THE INSIDE INC: $81,500 · Arts & CultureART START INC: $80,000 · Arts & Culture+115 more: $2,053,570 · Arts & Culture+115 moreCIVIC ENSEMBLE INC: $81,500 · OtherCIVIC ENSEMBLE INCONE BREATH RISING INC: $75,000 · OtherONE BREATH RISING INCCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $75,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVE…CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $75,000 · OtherCORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW …REENTRY THEATER OF HARLEM: $50,000 · OtherNew York Folklore Society Inc: $40,500 · OtherBUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 · OtherEchoes of Incarceration Inc: $48,800 · Other+48 more: $694,316 · Other+48 moreBARD COLLEGE: $76,400 · 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 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: $20,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $19,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $16,500 · Education+7 more: $68,300 · EducationVOICE Buffalo Inc: $70,000 · 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 ImprovementPAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalARTISTIC NOISE INC: $40,048 · Crime & LegalTHE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalAll Kings Project Inc: $73,976 · HealthMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET: $30,000 · EnvironmentSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $8,997 · Environment
Arts & Culture$2,305,070Other$1,180,116Education$318,256Community Improvement$140,085Crime & Legal$100,048Health$73,976Environment$58,997

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%$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 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 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 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.

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

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 New York Council for the Humanities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New York Council for the Humanities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
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 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home