How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in New York?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in New York, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New York from out of state.

Who is the largest arts and culture funder in New York?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in New York, $290M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in New York?

$3.9B reached 3,308 arts and culture organizations in New York, from 8,292 funders. 48% came from funders also based in New York.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · New York · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in New York

Arts and culture funding in New York is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Metropolitan Museum of Art leads, and the money reaches 3,308 groups.

$3.9B

granted

3,308

organizations

48%

from in-state

The short version

8,292 funders gave $3.9B to 3,308 arts and culture organizations in New York across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
48% of that came from funders also based in New York; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in New York is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $290M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Metropolitan Museum of Art, at $257M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in New York

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in New York, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$290M 2The Andrew W Mellon Foundation$191M 3National Philanthropic Trust$133M 4Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$106M 5John D and Catherine T Macarthur$83M 6Corporation for Public Broadcasting$81M 7Jewish Communal Fund$71M 8The Epoch Times Association Inc$56M 9Tides Foundation$50M 10William S Paley Foundation Inc$49M

Arts and culture organizations in New York that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

3,298 other arts and culture organizations$2.8B

Metropolitan Museum of Art$257M Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts$143M

How to find arts and culture funders in New York

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Start with the funders already active in New York
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in New York are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
52% of arts and culture money in New York comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New York.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in New York?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in New York, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New York from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in New York?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in New York, $290M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in New York?: $3.9B reached 3,308 arts and culture organizations in New York, from 8,292 funders. 48% came from funders also based in New York.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.