· Public charity
The Bronx Council on the Arts Incorporated
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $303,050 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $975,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $672,700 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 $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $272k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRONX ACADEMY OF ARTS & DANCE | $29,500 |
| DAVALOIS FEARON DANCE COMPANY INC | $29,500 |
| ANNA & KITTY INC | $22,500 |
| COTC NYC LLC | $22,500 |
| ORCHESTRA OF THE BRONX INC | $20,000 |
| THE BRONX FILMMAKERS COLLECTIVE IN | $18,000 |
| ELISSA CARMONA | $17,500 |
| PEGGY JOSEFINA ROBLES-ALVARDO | $12,500 |
| BOMBAZO DANCE CO INC | $10,000 |
| INFINITE VARIETY PRODUCTIONS INC | $10,000 |
| MASS TRANSIT STREET THEATER INC | $10,000 |
| BAFA INC - BANGLADESH ACADEMY OF | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL GHANA PARADE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| CENTRO CULTURAL EDUCATIVO | $10,000 |
| KOFAGO INSTITUTE INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
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.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
- BDBombazo Dance Co4× · 2022–2025 · $103k · revenue +20%
- TOTHE ORCHESTRA OF THE BRONX INC4× · 2022–2025 · $58k · revenue +215% · 61% of their budget
- BFBRONX FILMMAKERS COLLECTIVE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $43k · revenue ×28
Funded once
- EVELIO VILLAFRANCA-WESTone grant, 2024 · $20k
- VCVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +78%
- BIBOMBAYO INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Cultural and educational performances
The Latina Dance Project, a collaborative ensemble of multidisciplinary artists, explores through performances--physical, musical, and visual--controversial issues impacting the global community. The companys projects create experiences…
Concerts and workshops in 18th century dance.
A Contemporary Dance Company Based in New York City
Promote understanding Of Classical Dance
Provide high quality low cost performing arts classes to underserved children in Harlem and the surrounding neigborhoods.
Flamenco performances, instruction, activities organization.
Our primary purpose is to call attention to pressing social-justice problems of our day through the expressive medium of dance, and to bring affordable live dance performances to marginalized people.
Danza Floricanto/USA - founded in 1975 by Gema Sandoval. Danza Floricanto/USA is the oldest existing professional Mexican folk dance troupe in Los Angeles. As professional dancers, their purpose is to preserve Mexican culture, validate it…
Borinquen Dance Theatre, Inc. provides a year-round self-development dance program for young persons, mainly Hispanic young women, ages 8-20, performing throughout NYS. Services benefit between 40-80 students each year.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mazarte Dance Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is Art Defined Productions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 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. 17 of the 40 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 Bombazo Dance Co ↗
- Who funds THE ORCHESTRA OF THE BRONX INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX FILMMAKERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Raices Cultural Art Association LTD ↗
- Who funds Centro Cultural y Educativo El Maestro Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR AVILES TYPICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MASS TRANSIT STREET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ART DEFINED PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds PEPATIAN INC ↗
- Who funds ANNA & KITTY INC ↗
- Who funds MAZARTE DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BAFA INC BANGLADESH ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MILLENNIUM DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds EVOLUTION FORWARD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DIVERSITY IN ARTS AND NATIONS FOR CULTURAL EDUCATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Bronx Council on the Arts Incorporated 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.
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