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ART21 INC

ART21 INC (New York) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,124,166 to it, the largest being ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC ($3,700,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.6M
Funders on record
79
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$9.1M
48/79 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Art21 Inc does

Mission

Art21s mission is to educate and expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films, resources, and public programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Art21 serves artists, students, teachers, and general audiences across the united states, and around the world. Art21s flagship project is the peabody award winning primetime television series, art in the twenty-first century, which is broadcast nationally on pbs. Art21 also produces a series of digital films, web site (www.art21.org), social media, and other resources. Art21s education and public programs, including a summer institute for educators; and live events.

    $3,013,447 spent$965,414 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,013,447.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($3.3M)2018 Revenue 95 ($2.9M) Expenses 121 ($2.0M) Net assets 127 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 110 ($3.3M) Expenses 104 ($1.7M) Net assets 179 ($5.9M)2020 Revenue 62 ($1.8M) Expenses 129 ($2.1M) Net assets 173 ($5.7M)2021 Revenue 75 ($2.2M) Expenses 99 ($1.6M) Net assets 202 ($6.7M)2022 Revenue 113 ($3.4M) Expenses 163 ($2.7M) Net assets 195 ($6.4M)2023 Revenue 144 ($4.3M) Expenses 183 ($3.0M) Net assets 248 ($8.2M)2024 Revenue 116 ($3.5M) Expenses 221 ($3.6M) Net assets 274 ($9.1M)2025 Revenue 119 ($3.6M) Expenses 233 ($3.8M) Net assets 276 ($9.1M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (233)Net assets (276)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 2022 to 2023, from $6.7M to $8.8M (+32%).

$3.5M
$4.3M
$6.1M
$5.8M
$6.9M
$6.7M
$8.8M
$9.6M
$10M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 7% · 2019 5% · 2020 17% · 2021 15% · 2022 5% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

65% of ART21 INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.4M
’17
$881k
’18
$1.6M
’19
−$261k
’20
$621k
’21
$731k
’22
$1.3M
’23
−$134k
’24
−$246k
’25
1.4
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

Tina Kukielski

Executive director

Board chair

James Cohan

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+1+0+4+6+4+1+2+3
No longer listed·10314103
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $722k → $1.8M.

16 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 ART21 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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

ART21 INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

26% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ART21 INC.

33%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 34% · 2019 42% · 2020 27% · 2021 29% · 2022 21% · 2023 17% — diversifying over time.

“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

67% of ART21 INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

68% of ART21 INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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

ART21 INC's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 40 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−7% · below the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding ART21 INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $894k on record.

Federal$894k
grants $894kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$894k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 7%Fundraising 14%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

68%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds ART21 INC?
ART21 INC (New York) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,124,166 to it, the largest being ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC ($3,700,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ART21 INC have?
IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $11,124,166 in grants to ART21 INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ART21 INC?
ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ART21 INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 79 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing