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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.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$459k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$5.7MPhilanthropy$372kHealth$122kCommunity Improvement$103kPublic Benefit$13kEducation$5k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $961,448, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,435,519 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,474,071 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $445k
  • $250k+1 grant · $459k
$81,228
Median grant
2
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Urban Art Beat: $82k → 11%DRUMSONGS PRODUCTIONS INC: $132k → 13%YOUTH ARTS NEW YORK INC: $57k → 17%CARIBBEING: $55k → 20%MUSIC OF HOPE: $70k → 9%DRUMSONGS PRODUCTIONS INC: $121k → 13%YOUTH ARTS NEW YORK INC: $56k → 17%MUSIC OF HOPE CONCERT: $55k → 9%DRUMSONGS PRODUCTIONS INC: $91k → 13%YOUTH ARTS NEW YORK: $38k → 17%MUSIC OF HOPE CONCERT: $55k → 9%DRUMSONGS PRODUCTIONS INC: $85k → 13%YOUTH ARTS NEW YORK: $35k → 17%KODA INC: $43k → 20%SOUND MIND LIVE: $122k → 20%PARTHENIA: $90k → 13%CUBAN ARTIST FUND: $176k → 17%PARTHENIA: $81k → 13%Cuban Artists Fund: $164k → 17%Parthenia: $72k → 13%CUBAN ARTIST FUND: $152k → 17%Aphganculture Museum Foundation: $77k → 20%PARTHENIA: $70k → 13%CUBAN ARTISTS FUND: $116k → 17%APHGANCULTURE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $60k → 20%PARTHENIA: $53k → 13%CUBAN ARTIST FUND: $107k → 17%PARTHENIA: $44k → 13%CUBAN ARTIST FUND: $89k → 17%PARTHENIA: $40k → 13%CUBAN ARTISTS FUND: $78k → 17%CUBAN ARTISTS FUND: $47k → 17%MOVE NYC FOUNDATION INC: $140k → 17%THE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION INC: $296k → 17%THE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION INC: $201k → 17%MUSIC AND MENTORING HOUSE: $49k → 17%DENYCE GRAVES FOUNDATION INC: $255k → 17%LENAPE CENTER: $650k → 17%LENAPE CENTER: $459k → 17%MINERVA FOUNDATION FOR FIGURE DRAWING: $44k → 17%LENAPE CENTER: $366k → 17%MINERVA FOUNDATION FOR FIGURE DRAWING: $41k → 17%LENAPE CENTER: $190k → 17%MINERVA FOUNDATION FOR FIGURE DRAWING: $34k → 17%LENAPE CENTER: $50k → 17%BALLROOM BASIX USA: $96k → 17%MUSIC AND MENTORING HOUSE: $84k → 17%PARTHENIA: $35k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 22 repeat orgs$645k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
9

Total granted

$5.7M
$645k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+155%

Still filing today

32%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CulturePublic BenefitHealthOther
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

  • CA
    CUBAN ARTISTS FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $928k · revenue +174% · 87% of their budget
  • TM
    THE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $497k · revenue +71%
  • CI
    CARIBBEING INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $78k · revenue +278% · 58% of their budget

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DENYCE GRAVES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $255k · revenue -84%
  • MF
    MOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $140k · revenue +155%
  • SM
    Sound Mind Live Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $122k · revenue +275% · 51% of their budget
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
New Dance Alliance Inc

New Dance Alliance is a performing arts nonprofit. Our mission, from the earliest days, has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, we have shifted our focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and…

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2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
Harlem Arts Foundation

The Harlem Art''s Foundation''s Mission Is To Showcase And Preserve Harlem''s Tradition Of Rich Culture And Community By Working With Our Local Partners To Strategically Shape The Physical And Social Opportunities Of Our Neighborhood…

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4
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture
5
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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6
BlackBox Ensemble Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
7
Art of Brooklyn Festival

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Qubit New Music

Promotion of the Arts

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
Art of Opera a Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
11
The Tank Ltd

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Herman Cornejo the State of the Art

To creatively explore the intersection

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Music Beyond Measure Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 31 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LENAPE CENTER LTD: $1,742,698 · Arts & CultureLENAPE CENTER LTDCUBAN ARTISTS FUND INC: $928,253 · Arts & CultureCUBAN ARTISTS FUND INCYOUTH ARTS NEW YORK INC: $270,042 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ARTS NEW YORK INCTHE DENYCE GRAVES FOUNDATION INC: $255,314 · Arts & CultureTHE DENYCE GRAVES FOUNDATION INC+6 more: $217,303 · Arts & Culture+6 moreDRUMSONGS PRODUCTIONS INC: $539,166 · OtherDRUMSONGS PRODUCTIONS INCPARTHENIA: $503,366 · OtherPARTHENIATHE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION INC: $496,597 · OtherTHE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION INCMINERVA FOUNDATION FOR FIGURE DRAWING: $187,873 · OtherMINERVA FOUNDATION FOR FIGURE DRAWINGMUSIC OF HOPE: $180,084 · OtherMUSIC OF HOPEAphganculture Museum Foundation: $164,148 · OtherAphganculture Museum FoundationMUSIC AND MENTORING HOUSE: $162,548 · OtherMUSIC AND MENTORING HOUSEUrban Art Beat: $158,182 · OtherUrban Art BeatBALLROOM BASIX USA: $96,379 · Other+10 more: $144,250 · Other+10 moreMOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC: $139,595 · Public BenefitSound Mind Live Inc: $122,143 · Health
Arts & Culture$3,413,610Other$2,632,593Public Benefit$139,595Health$122,143

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 budgetCUBAN ARTISTS FUND INC: $928,253 over 8y, 87% of budgetTHE MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION INC: $496,597 over 2y, 24% of budgetYOUTH ARTS NEW YORK INC: $270,042 over 8y, 99% of budgetTHE DENYCE GRAVES FOUNDATION INC: $255,314 over 1y, 19% of budgetMOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC: $139,595 over 1y, 25% of budgetSound Mind Live Inc: $122,143 over 1y, 51% of budgetCARIBBEING INC: $77,684 over 3y, 58% of budgetKODA ARTS INC: $52,550 over 2y, 55% of budgetLUMINAL THEATER CORP: $33,825 over 3y, 24% 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.

  • 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 ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New York Foundation for the Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New York Foundation for the Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 31 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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