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The Lotos Foundation Inc

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$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$268kEducation$154kPublic Benefit$26kHuman Services$24kHealth$16k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $80,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $130,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,000 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTISTS SPACE INC$10,000
MOVE(NYC)$10,000
MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS$10,000
DEVELOPING ARTISTS THEATRE CO$10,000
RED HOOK ART PROJECT$10,000
CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER$10,000
THE WOOSTER GROUP$10,000
MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC$10,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%THE KITCHEN: $8k → 17%THE KITCHEN: $8k → 17%THE KITCHEN: $8k → 17%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$378k · 15 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$378k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
-1%

Still filing today

87%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • MF
    MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +158%
  • MF
    MOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +44%
  • DW
    DANCE WORKS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $24k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • JH
    JEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue -9%
  • IP
    Irondale Productions Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -12%
  • T5
    THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +11%
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
Women's Project & Productions Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Nia Theatrical Production Company Inc

Nia theatrical production company inc. is dedicatedto educating young artist and bringing arts program to underserved communities in nyc.

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Amda Inc (American Musical and Dramatic Academy)

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…

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5
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
6
Dancewave Inc

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.

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7
The New 42ND Street Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
National Dance Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Project Performing Arts Inc

Provide high quality low cost performing arts classes to underserved children in Harlem and the surrounding neigborhoods.

Arts & Culture
10
New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble Inc Attn Barbara Carocci

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

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,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Opening Act Inc: $42,000 · Arts & CultureOpening Act IncMAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $34,000 · Arts & CultureMAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCDeveloping Artists Theaters Company Inc: $26,000 · Arts & CultureDeveloping Artists Theaters Company IncDANCE WORKS INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE WORKS INCTHE BUSHWICK STARR INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BUSHWICK STARR INCDISCALCED INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureDISCALCED INCALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INCNATIONAL CHORAL COUNCIL INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CHORAL COUNCIL INCAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INCMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WOOSTER GROUP INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreCORNELIA CONNELY CENTER FOR EDUCATION: $42,000 · OtherCORNELIA CONNELY CE…ST IGNATIUS SCHOOL: $16,000 · OtherST IGNATIUS SCHOOLARTFUL COMMONS: $10,000 · OtherARTFUL COMMONSIrondale Productions Inc: $8,000 · OtherIrondale Production…THE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · OtherTHE MIDORI FOUNDATI…GIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $24,000 · EducationGIRLS WRI…COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC: $16,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY…MOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · Public BenefitTHE KITCHEN INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN: $16,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR URBAN PEDAGOGY INC: $8,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$290,000Other$84,000Education$40,000Public Benefit$26,000Human Services$24,000Health$16,000Environment$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpening Act Inc: $42,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $34,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetDeveloping Artists Theaters Company Inc: $26,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDANCE WORKS INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BUSHWICK STARR INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDISCALCED INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE KITCHEN INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CHORAL COUNCIL INC: $16,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WOOSTER GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIrondale Productions Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR URBAN PEDAGOGY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY OF THE EDUCATIONAL ARTS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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.

The Hyde and Watson F…The Howard Gilman Fou…Cornelia T Bailey Cha…The New York Communit…Booth Ferris Foundati…Pinkerton FoundationThe Macmillan Family …Lily Auchincloss Foun…Youth Improving Non-P…The Pierre & Tana Mat…The Harkness Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ33.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Lotos Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lotos Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 The Lotos Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Lotos Foundation Inc 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 27 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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