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Putnam Arts Council

Development and fostering of the arts in putnam county, new york

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2022.

Arts & Culture$234kEducation$4k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $15,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $89,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $73,600 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.
$8,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$425k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTS ON THE LAKE$8,400
COLD SPRING DAVE COMPANY$7,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%COLD SPRING DAVE COMPANY: $8k → 6%The Chapel Restoration: $3k → 6%The Chapel Restoration: $2k → 6%Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: $2k → 6%The Chapel Restoration: $2k → 6%TOMPKINS CORNERS CULTURAL CENTER: $6k → 6%COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS INC: $5k → 6%Tompkins Corners Cultural Center: $4k → 6%Colaborative Concepts: $4k → 6%Mahopac Public Library: $4k → 6%Colaborative Concepts: $3k → 6%Doansburg Chamber Ensemble: $3k → 6%Colaborative Concepts: $3k → 6%Doansburg Chamber Ensemble: $2k → 6%Colaborative Concepts: $2k → 6%ARTS ON THE LAKE: $8k → 6%GARRISON LANDING ASSOCIATION: $6k → 6%PUTNAM CHORALE: $6k → 6%Garrison Landing Association: $5k → 6%ARTS ON THE LAKE: $6k → 6%Boscobel House & Gardens: $3k → 6%Putnam Chorale: $5k → 6%Garrison Art Center: $3k → 6%Arts on the Lake: $4k → 6%Garrison Landing Association: $2k → 6%Nimham Mountain Singers: $4k → 6%Philipstown Depot Theatre: $2k → 6%Nimham Mountain Singers: $3k → 6%Garrison Landing Association: $2k → 6%Nimham Mountain Singers: $3k → 6%Garrison Landing Association: $2k → 6%Arts on the Lake: $2k → 6%Garrison Landing Association: $2k → 6%Arts on the Lake: $2k → 6%Arts on the Lake: $2k → 6%Putnam Chorale: $2k → 6%Village of Brewster Film Festival: $3k → 6%Village of Brewster Film Festival: $2k → 6%Town of Southeast Cultural Arts Coalition: $10k → 6%TOWN OF SOUTHEAST CULTURAL COALITION: $9k → 6%Town of Southeast Cultural Arts Coalition: $5k → 6%Town of Southeast Cultural Arts Coalition: $4k → 6%The Brewster Theater Co: $4k → 6%Village of Brewster Film Festival: $3k → 6%The Brewster Theater Co: $3k → 6%Town of Southeast Cultural Arts Coalition: $3k → 6%Town of Southeast Cultural Coalition: $3k → 6%The Brewster Theater Co: $3k → 6%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$240k · 22 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
5

Total granted

$240k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+43%

Still filing today

64%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • TO
    TOWN OF SOUTHEAST CULTURAL ARTS COALITION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $36k · revenue +147%
  • AO
    ARTS ON THE LAKE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +108%
  • PC
    PUTNAM CHORALE LTD
    6× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • GA
    GARRISON ART CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +94%
  • MI
    MANITOGA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -6%
  • ST
    Stones Throw Theatre Company
    one grant, 2019 · $800
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
Le Sueur Theatre Historic Preservation Corporation
Arts & Culture
2
P & J Theater Works
Arts & Culture
3
Historical Society of Saratoga Springs

Preservation & maintenance collection

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4
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
5
Clinton Arts Center
—
6
The Shubert Foundation Inc
—
7
Dutchess County Art Association Inc

To foster and perpetuate appreciation of the visual arts

—
8
Peninsula Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
9
Croatoan Archaeological Society

curation, display and storage of artifacts. preserving local history

Arts & Culture
10
Putnam Arts Council

Development and fostering of the arts in putnam county, new york

Arts & Culture
11
Tioga Historical Society Inc

Public museum

Human Services
12
The Real Theatre
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philipstown Depot Theatre Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boscobel Restoration 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

20 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. 20 of the 28 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWN OF SOUTHEAST CULTURAL ARTS COALITION INC: $36,030 · Arts & CultureTOWN OF SOUTHEAST CULTURAL ARTS COALITION INCARTS ON THE LAKE INC: $26,850 · Arts & CultureARTS ON THE LAKE INCPUTNAM CHORALE LTD: $18,800 · Arts & CulturePUTNAM CHORALE LTDTOMPKINS CORNERS CULTURAL CENTER: $16,400 · Arts & CultureTOMPKINS CORNERS CULTURAL CENTERBREWSTER THEATER COMPANY INC: $12,300 · Arts & CultureBREWSTER THEATER COMPANY INCHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $8,700 · Arts & CultureHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INCCOLD SPRING DANCE COMPANY INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CHAPEL RESTORATIONINC: $7,000 · Arts & CulturePHILIPSTOWN DEPOT THEATRE INC: $6,900 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $6,300 · Arts & CultureGARRISON'S LANDING ASSOCIATION INC: $20,081 · OtherGARRISON'S LANDING ASSOCIATION INCCOLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS INC: $18,590 · OtherCOLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS INCVillage of Brewster Film Festival: $10,200 · OtherVillage of Brewster Film FestivalNIMHAM MOUNTAIN SINGERS: $10,000 · OtherNIMHAM MOUNTAIN SINGERSDOANSBURG CHAMBER ENSEMBLE: $9,675 · OtherDOANSBURG CHAMBER ENSEMBLEBOSCOBEL RESTORATION INC: $7,700 · OtherBOSCOBEL RESTORATION INCLAKE MAHOPAC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $7,450 · OtherLAKE MAHOPAC LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONPUTNAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,500 · Other+4 more: $7,005 · Other+4 morePATTERSON LIBRARY: $7,500 · EducationJULIA L BUTTERFIELD MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $4,000 · EducationMANITOGA INC: $1,700 · Environment
Arts & Culture$146,780Other$94,201Education$11,500Environment$1,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTOWN OF SOUTHEAST CULTURAL ARTS COALITION INC: $36,030 over 6y, 21% of budgetARTS ON THE LAKE INC: $26,850 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetGARRISON'S LANDING ASSOCIATION INC: $20,081 over 6y, 10% of budgetPUTNAM CHORALE LTD: $18,800 over 6y, 13% of budgetTOMPKINS CORNERS CULTURAL CENTER: $16,400 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetNIMHAM MOUNTAIN SINGERS: $10,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $8,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOLD SPRING DANCE COMPANY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 29% of budgetPATTERSON LIBRARY: $7,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHAPEL RESTORATIONINC: $7,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPHILIPSTOWN DEPOT THEATRE INC: $6,900 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetJULIA L BUTTERFIELD MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $4,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGARRISON ART CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMANITOGA INC: $1,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library: $1,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% 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 TOWN OF SOUTHEAST CULTURAL ARTS COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS ON THE LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds GARRISON'S LANDING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PUTNAM CHORALE LTD ↗
  • Who funds TOMPKINS CORNERS CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BREWSTER THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds NIMHAM MOUNTAIN SINGERS ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSCOBEL RESTORATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLD SPRING DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds PATTERSON LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHAPEL RESTORATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds PHILIPSTOWN DEPOT THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds JULIA L BUTTERFIELD MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds GARRISON ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NOWODWORSKI FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE ↗
  • Who funds MANITOGA INC ↗
  • Who funds Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library dba Desmond-Fish Public Library ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Southeast Museum Association Inc ↗

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.

Ibm International Fou…Lostand FoundationPcsb Community Founda…The D J McManus Found…Anne Anastasi Charita…Community Foundations…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ibm International FoundationNY20.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Lostand Foundation · Pcsb Community Foundation · The D J McManus Foundation Inc · Anne Anastasi Charitable Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Putnam Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Putnam Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    7report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Putnam Arts Council?

    Find your warmest path to Putnam Arts Council through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 28 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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