· Public charity
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and opportunities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $961,448 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,435,519 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,474,071 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $445k
- $250k+1 grant · $459k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LENAPE CENTER | $459,176 |
| CUBAN ARTIST FUND | $175,840 |
| DRUMSONGS PRODUCTIONS INC | $132,054 |
| PARTHENIA | $81,228 |
| YOUTH ARTS NEW YORK INC | $56,211 |
| MINERVA FOUNDATION FOR FIGURE DRAWING | $34,098 |
| ASIFA-EAST | $16,345 |
| CIRCUMFERENCE | $6,496 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CACUBAN ARTISTS FUND INC8× · 2017–2025 · $928k · revenue +174% · 87% of their budget
- TMTHE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $497k · revenue +71%
- YAYOUTH ARTS NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +32% · 99% of their budget
Funded once
- TDTHE DENYCE GRAVES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $255k · revenue -84%
- MFMOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $140k · revenue +155%
- SMSound Mind Live Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $122k · revenue +275% · 51% of their budget
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.
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El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for…
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…
To present and promote contemporary classical music through innovative, interdisciplinary performances; to support living composers; and to engage diverse audiences through education, collaboration, and community-based programming.…
Promotion of the Arts
Art of Opera is dedicated to creating opera, music theater and multimedia based projects, commissioning composers to compose and arrange music for small chamber concerts and supporting the release of recordings.
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
Jeunes Virtuoses de New York" (JVNY) is an ensemble of exceptionally accomplished young musicians who perform on both sides of the Atlantic both as a string camerata, and in various chamber music configurations. Our mission is to transform…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caribbeing Inc and the most unlike its peers is C B D Music Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 31 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 LENAPE CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds CUBAN ARTISTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ARTS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE DENYCE GRAVES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sound Mind Live Inc ↗
- Who funds CARIBBEING INC ↗
- Who funds KODA ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LUMINAL THEATER CORP ↗
- Who funds C B D MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Music Beyond Measure Inc ↗
- Who funds HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization New York Foundation for the Arts 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.