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The Newburgh Institute for the Arts and Ideas at a glance

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The Newburgh Institute for the Arts and Ideas

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$114kScience & Tech$26kEducation$25kHealth$12kRecreation & Sports$5kCommunity Improvement$4kEnvironment$2kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,100
Median grant
2
States reached
$974k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Metropolitan Musem of Art$5,000
The Crossings Harold Meltzer Record$5,000
Complexions Foundation$1,500
Untermyer Gardens Conservancy$1,500
The Vienna Philharmonic Society$1,500
Thornwillow Institute$1,100
The Pines Foundation$1,000
Preservation League of New York Sta$1,000
Composers Now$400
EAMA$250
Individual grant recipient$58
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Broadway Advocacy Coalition: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
DC
FL
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$76k · 16 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
39

Total granted

$76k
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+45%

Still filing today

81%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • NY
    NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +52%
  • TV
    The Vienna Philharmonic Society
    5× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEW COLLEGE LTD
    one grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue -30%
  • TF
    The FIU Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Foundation for Modern Opera
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2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.

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4
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
5
The New York Festival of Song Inc

NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…

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6
Center for Contemporary Opera

Based in ny city the company focuses on producing and developing new opera and music theater works and rviving rarely seen american operas written after world war. teh center for contemporary operas ha sstaged the premiers of over seventy…

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7
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
8
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
9
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
10
American Composers Forum

To advocate for and support living composers

Arts & Culture
11
New York City Opera

New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…

Arts & Culture
12
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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Foolproof Foundation 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

38 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. 38 of the 61 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
26/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE: $9,155 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATENEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $8,150 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INCTHORNWILLOW INSTITUTE LTD: $8,100 · Arts & CultureTHORNWILLOW INSTITUTE LTDThe Vienna Philharmonic Society: $7,500 · Arts & CultureThe Vienna Philharmonic SocietyMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $6,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORKYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INCELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES …Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd …Boston Chamber Music Society Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBoston Chamber Music Society IncFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureComplexions Foundation: $3,100 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $8,845 · Arts & Culture+7 moreIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe FIU Foundation: $5,000 · OtherThe FIU FoundationWolfsonian Museum: $5,000 · OtherWolfsonian MuseumTECA: $5,000 · OtherTECAEugene O'Neill Theatre Center: $5,000 · OtherEugene O'Neill Theatre CenterQuinlan PR Rehabilitation Fund: $5,000 · OtherQuinlan PR Rehabilitation FundTHE CENTURY ASSOCIATION: $3,686 · OtherJoyce Theater: $3,000 · Other+25 more: $22,948 · Other+25 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 · EducationPresident and F…THE CROSSING INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE CROSSING IN…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEW COLLEGE LTD: $24,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRI…+1 more: $500 · InternationalUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $1,850 · HealthAmerican Foundation of Savoy Orders Incorporated: $250 · HealthTHE PINES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$84,350Other$79,634Education$31,000International$24,500Recreation & Sports$5,000Health$2,100Community Improvement$1,000

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEW COLLEGE LTD: $24,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE: $9,155 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $8,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHORNWILLOW INSTITUTE LTD: $8,100 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Vienna Philharmonic Society: $7,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CROSSING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoston Chamber Music Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetComplexions Foundation: $3,100 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCOMPOSERS NOW INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $1,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,545 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe English Concert In America Inc co Sabal & Associates: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PINES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OLIVER SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOLPROOF FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGroupmuse Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK 20 20 INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE LIVING CITY: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Foundation of Savoy Orders Incorporated: $250 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.

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 Bernhill FundThe Ford FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…The Framarb FoundationThe Newcomb-Hargraves…J & Ar FoundationMid Atlantic Arts IncThe New York Communit…National Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…
The Bernhill FundNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bernhill Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Framarb Foundation · The Newcomb-Hargraves Foundation · J & Ar Foundation · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Newburgh Institute for the Arts and Ideas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Newburgh Institute for the Arts and Ideas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Boston Chamber Music Society Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report 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
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.
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How do I get to The Newburgh Institute for the Arts and Ideas?

Find your warmest path to The Newburgh Institute for the Arts and Ideas 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 61 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home