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ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION

ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,414 to it, the largest being MANES PEACE PRIZE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$232k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$272k
Net assets
$24k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Arete Living Arts Foundation does

Mission

The creation and support of arts that inspire personal, political, or spiritual awakening.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Our emerging artist galleries and work studios present exhibitions of emerging artist, provides workspace, mentorship, and business and marketing guidance . The Gallery also offers summer youth programs.

    $207,442 spentof which $5,275 as grants$185,399 earned by the program
    96% of program spending
  2. Music and multimedia performances

    $6,719 spent$802 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  3. Film Projects

    $783 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Publising

    $38 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $214,982.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($303k) Expenses 100 ($265k) Net assets 100 ($76k)2022 Revenue 83 ($250k) Expenses 106 ($280k) Net assets 46 ($35k)2023 Revenue 63 ($191k) Expenses 79 ($211k) Net assets 20 ($15k)2024 Revenue 77 ($232k) Expenses 84 ($223k) Net assets 32 ($24k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (77)Expenses (84)Net assets (32)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $76k to $35k (−54%).

$76k
$35k
$15k
$24k
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

7% of ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$37k
’21
−$30k
’22
−$20k
’23
$9k
’24
1.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Caeser Whiteman

Executive Director

Board chair

Heather Milburn

Board President

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

2021202220232024
Listed6554
Joined·+2+0+2
No longer listed·303
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $6k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 2022 67% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

52% of ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
MD
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 23% between 2021 and 2024.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 2%Fundraising 2%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION?
ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,414 to it, the largest being MANES PEACE PRIZE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $272,414 in grants to ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION?
MANES PEACE PRIZE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARETE LIVING ARTS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing