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New York Live Arts Inc

New york live arts strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation's dance and movement-based artists through new approaches of producing, presenting, and educating in our 20,000 square foot home, which includes a 184-seat theater, two 1,200 square foot studios, and communal space in the lobby and cafe.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.6MPhilanthropy$238kCommunity Improvement$110kYouth Development$13kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $1,907,684, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,728,225 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $820,541 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 $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $293k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$14,100
Median grant
5
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAUNTED MELODIES LLC$1,458,438
SOL INITIATIVE LLC$129,369
ROMANCELLO LLC$83,610
ALEF$79,900
MYSTICAL FEET COMPANY LLC$39,098
JAMAL JACKSON DANCE COMPANY$38,446
D MAC P INC$14,100
MAGDALENA KACZMARSKA DANCE LLC$13,136
THE CAMBIO GROUP$10,317
INGRID SILVA LLC$10,108
UMAMI PLAYGROUND DANCE INC$9,626
LAURA ELKESLASSY LLC$8,614
HARVEST MOON ENTERTAINMENT LLC$7,000
ESTIA CREATIVE HOME$5,922
02The need
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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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GRIOT CIRCLE: $5k → 20%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 field
04the grantee network

3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAUNTED MELODIES LLC: $1,458,438 · OtherHAUNTED MELODIES LLCSOL INITIATIVE LLC: $129,369 · OtherSOL INITIATIVE LLCROMANCELLO LLC: $83,610 · OtherALEF: $79,900 · Other+11 more: $162,341 · Other+11 moreTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $5,974 · Youth DevelopmentLIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION: $5,974 · Food & NutritionGRIOT CIRCLE INC: $5,405 · Human Services
Other$1,913,658Youth Development$5,974Food & Nutrition$5,974Human Services$5,405

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $5,974 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION: $5,974 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRIOT CIRCLE INC: $5,405 over 1y, 0.6% 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 THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRIOT CIRCLE INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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 18 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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