New Jersey · Public charity
Newark Arts Council
Newark arts' mission is to power the arts to transform the lives of those who live in, work in, and visit newark.
- $184k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $113k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,610
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $31,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $607k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Newark Arts Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $113k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $202k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $447k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $185k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $221k | 73% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $288k | 84% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $46k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yendor LLC | $207,096 | 6 | n/a |
| Malcolm X Shabazz High School | $191,730 | 4 | n/a |
| Arts for Kids Inc | $118,910 | 5 | 18% |
| Arts Horizons Inc | $83,037 | 5 | 4% |
| Sounds of Tomorrow Foundation | $82,885 | 2 | n/a |
| Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District Inc | $81,167 | 3 | 9% |
| Newark Performing Arts Corporation | $66,667 | 1 | 3% |
| Essex County School of Technology | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Newark Moonlight Cinema LLC | $58,964 | 2 | n/a |
| Glassroots Inc | $54,649 | 6 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yendor LLC | $207,096 | 6 | n/a |
| Malcolm X Shabazz High School | $191,730 | 4 | n/a |
| Arts for Kids Inc | $118,910 | 5 | 18% |
| Arts Horizons Inc | $83,037 | 5 | 4% |
| Sounds of Tomorrow Foundation | $82,885 | 2 | n/a |
| Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District Inc | $81,167 | 3 | 9% |
| Newark Performing Arts Corporation | $66,667 | 1 | 3% |
| Essex County School of Technology | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Newark Moonlight Cinema LLC | $58,964 | 2 | n/a |
| Glassroots Inc | $54,649 | 6 | 2% |
| Teens Step Up Inc | $47,775 | 4 | 25% |
| Save the Music Foundation | $38,300 | 2 | 1% |
| Leopard Stripes Production LLC | $29,250 | 1 | n/a |
| New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation | $26,315 | 4 | 0% |
| Rutgers University Foundation | $22,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Building Responsible Intelligent Creative Kids | $22,500 | 1 | 1% |
| University Heights Charter School | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Newark Performing Arts Corp | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Newark Print Shop | $17,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Gallery Aferro | $16,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Rutgers the State University | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Project for Empty Space Inc | $14,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts Inc | $14,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Newark School of the Arts | $14,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Changing Perceptions Theater LLC | $13,036 | 2 | n/a |
| Cherub Stewart | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Index Art Center Foundation | $11,500 | 3 | n/a |
| FP YouthOutcry Foundation Inc DBA The Hubb Arts & Trauma Center | $11,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Newark Boys Chorus School | $11,500 | 2 | 1% |
| The New Jersey Historical Society | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Jazz Exchange LLC | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Steps 2 Success LLC | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Educational Arts Team Inc | $8,568 | 1 | 1% |
| Theatre World Music Service | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Free Public Library of the City of Newark New Jersey | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Institute of Music for Children Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| YouthBuild Newark Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Keys 2 Success Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Greater Newark Conservancy | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc | $5,230 | 1 | n/a |
| Newark Community Street Team Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/A United Way of Greater Newark | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Barat Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Dirty Soles Footwear Group LLC | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| All Stars Project Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Forest Hill Community Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Invest Newark a New Jersey Nonprofit Corp | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dream Play Media | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Newark Arts Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Victoria Foundation Inc · The Prudential Foundation · Turrell Fund · Pseg Foundation Inc · Devils Youth Foundation Inc · New Jersey Children's Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Nonprofit Finance Fund · The McJ Amelior Foundation
How this is measured
About Newark Arts Council
- How much does Newark Arts Council give?
- Newark Arts Council reported 5 itemized grants totaling $113,236, out of $183,685 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Newark Arts Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (83%), Philanthropy (6%), Education (6%).
- Who are Newark Arts Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yendor LLC ($207k), Malcolm X Shabazz High School ($192k), Arts for Kids Inc ($119k).
- Does Newark Arts Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Newark Arts Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc, Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey.
- Where is Newark Arts Council based?
- Newark Arts Council is based in NJ.
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