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The Lotos Foundation Inc
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $80,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $130,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER | $10,000 |
| DEVELOPING ARTISTS THEATRE CO | $10,000 |
| MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC | $10,000 |
| MOVE(NYC) | $10,000 |
| MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| ARTISTS SPACE INC | $10,000 |
| RED HOOK ART PROJECT | $10,000 |
| THE WOOSTER GROUP | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- MFMAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC4× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +158%
- MFMOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +44%
- DWDANCE WORKS INC3× · 2021–2023 · $24k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- JHJEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTANone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue -9%
- T5THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INCone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +11%
- BSBLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSICgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +55%
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.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
Nia theatrical production company inc. is dedicatedto educating young artist and bringing arts program to underserved communities in nyc.
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…
Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…
Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.
Dancewave, Inc. is a nonprofit arts organization that transforms the lives of New York City youth through unique exposure to world-class, pre-professional performing arts training.
The new 42nd street, inc. (d/b/a new 42) is a leading performing arts nonprofit whose mission is to make extraordinary performing arts a vital part of everyone's life from the earliest years onward.
The purposes of the corporation are to introduce and foster the arts into the experience, participation and knowledge of children using dance as a catalyst; promote the belief that the arts are primary and vital in our society and should…
Provide high quality low cost performing arts classes to underserved children in Harlem and the surrounding neigborhoods.
New jersey dance theatre ensemble provides the highest quality, pre-professional training to aspiring dancers from new jersey through professional experiences with world-renowned dancers, teachers, choreographers, and musicians. founded in…
Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…
The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Irondale Productions Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 27 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 Opening Act Inc ↗
- Who funds MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Developing Artists Theaters Company Inc ↗
- Who funds MOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUSHWICK STARR INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WRITE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds THE KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHORAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOOSTER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Irondale Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF THE EDUCATIONAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR URBAN PEDAGOGY 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.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The New York Community Trust · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Pinkerton Foundation · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Lotos Foundation 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.
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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