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The Lake Placid Association for Music Drama and Art Inc

The lake placid center for the arts is dedicated to presenting and fostering quality arts, which inspire, enrich, educate, and entertain people of all ages.

$518k
Granted FY2023
33
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 33 grants below total $430,050 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $518,050 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $88,000 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.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PS21PERFORMANCE SPACES FOR THE 21S$30,000
HUDSON HALL$30,000
PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC$20,000
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY OS$20,000
KAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTE$20,000
STRAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS$19,700
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY PERFROMING ART$14,050
THE POINT CDC$14,000
PIANO BY NATURE INC$12,300
ROCHESTER FRINGE FESTIVAL INC$10,000
OPUS 40 INC$10,000
THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO$10,000
AUBURN PUBLIC THEATER$10,000
TEACHING ARTISTS ROC$10,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CIRCUS CULTURE LLC: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

1
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
2
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
3
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
The Brick Theater Inc

Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.

Arts & Culture
6
All Out Arts Inc

Cultural-educational, via multi-discipline arts hosting for the general public, and technical support for arts professionals.

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7
The Palace Performing Arts Center Inc

To operate the historic palace theater a 2,800-seat cultural and entertainment facility that is located in albany, ny. the organization works to organize cultural and entertainment events presenting affordable, diverse, quality, popular…

Arts & Culture
8
Clinton Arts Center
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9
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
10
Blue Curtain a Nj NonProfit Corporation

Entertainment

Arts & Culture
11
Dutchess County Art Association Inc

To foster and perpetuate appreciation of the visual arts

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12
The Avenue BlackBox Inc

The Avenue Blackbox is a bold, Black-led multidisciplinary performance space in Rochester, NY's Historic Joseph Avenue neighborhood, providing affordable and culturally rich experiences created by artists of color, youth, LGBTQIA+…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson Opera House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyProfessional Membership Ass…Family Philanthropic Founda…Faith-Based Global MissionsCollege Foundations and Sch…Asian Cultural & Religious …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%7%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr21%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr21%30%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
11%
6,929/66,013

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.

03the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PS 21 INC — $30,000 · Arts & CulturePS 21 INCHUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON OPERA HOUSE INCKAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureKAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER INCISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureISSUE PROJECT ROOM INCTHE STRAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $19,700 · Arts & CultureTHE STRAND CENTER FOR THE ARTSFRIGID NEW YORK INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE GEORGE ARTS PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureWAVE FARM INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGENEVA CONCERTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureParamount Hudson Valley Arts Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePENDRAGON INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO — $10,000 · Arts & CultureARTSWESTCHESTER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTEACHING ARTISTS ROC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureJAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFORT HILL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCAFFE LENA INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAUBURN PUBLIC THEATER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON — $14,050 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF N…The Point Community Development Corporation — $14,000 · OtherThe Point Community D…PIANO BY NATURE INC — $12,300 · OtherPIANO BY NATURE INCTROY SAVINGS BANK MUSIC HALL CORPORATION — $10,000 · OtherTROY SAVINGS BANK MUS…SCHOHARIE COUNTY ARTS — $10,000 · OtherSCHOHARIE COUNTY ARTSNELSON A ROCKEFELLER EMPIRE STATE PLAZA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $10,000 · OtherNELSON A ROCKEFELLER …OPUS 40 INC — $10,000 · OtherOPUS 40 INCPURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationPURCHASE COLL…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $20,000 · EducationThe Research …LEWISTON COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC — $10,000 · EducationLEWISTON COUN…TANNERY POND CENTER INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsRochester Fringe Festival Inc — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC — $10,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$259,700Other$80,350Education$50,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Environment$10,000Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPS 21 INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STRAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $19,700 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation — $14,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIGID NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE GEORGE ARTS PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTROY SAVINGS BANK MUSIC HALL CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWAVE FARM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGENEVA CONCERTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetLEWISTON COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetParamount Hudson Valley Arts Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPENDRAGON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetARTSWESTCHESTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEACHING ARTISTS ROC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetJAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTANNERY POND CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetRochester Fringe Festival Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPUS 40 INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFORT HILL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCAFFE LENA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAUBURN PUBLIC THEATER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

JM McDonald Foundatio…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Howard Gilman Fou…Price Chopper's Golub…Albertine FoundationCloudsplitter Foundat…The Jm Kaplan Fund IncThe Community Foundat…The Andrew W Mellon F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Verizon FoundationJewish Communal Fund
JM McDonald Foundation IncDE19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Albertine Foundation · Cloudsplitter Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Lake Placid Association for Music Drama and Art Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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