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ARTS ANGELS

ARTS ANGELS (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,063 to it, the largest being IRVING AND SARA SELIS FOUNDATION INC ($31,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$42k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$31k
Net assets
$58k
2/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Arts Angels does

Mission

Our mission includes raising funds for students in the arts. Arts Angels aims to promote arts education and programming for students in nyack public schools. Our fund-raising activities provide financial support to ensure the vitality of arts education and programming in nyack schools, expanding and enriching student experiences.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Dramaworks is the parent group supporting the drama club at nyack high school. We help raise money for student scholarships, and support performances through various activities. Nyack high schools drama club is an extra-curricular activity which offers students an opportunity to be actors, singers, dancers, assistant directors/producers, sound and light technicians, set and costume designers, scenic painters, prop designers, stagehands and musicians. Each year the drama club presents three productions: fall drama or comedy, spring musical and spring one acts. Family and friends will be delighted in seeing a memorable evening of extraordinary talent.

    $19,767 spent
    30% of program spending
  2. Musicworks is a parent organization which, in partnership with the nyack public school district, seeks to support and enhance the music department and increase community awareness of its programs by: providing opportunities for students to perform in a wide variety of settings by arranging for concerts in the community raising funds so students can attend regional and national festivals ensuring that musical opportunities are available to all students (e.g., by offering scholarshipsfor instruments and music lessons) maintaining this website for families and the community.

    $32,343 spent
    50% of program spending
  3. Marching band

    $11,789 spent
    18% of program spending
  4. Artworks

    $368 spent
    1% of program spending
  5. Arts Angels accepts donations and engages in fund-raising activities on behalf of dramaworks and musicworks. Allocates money that would not otherwise be available to these groups through special events, membership dues, grants and individual contributions. Offsets costs for school clubs and programs including equipment, travel to competitions and events, workshops, artist-in-residency programs, and after-school activities. Arts Angels strives to engage a larger audience to support the talent of our nyack students and share in the benefits of a community that values and promotes the arts.

    $603 spent
    1% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,870.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $24.

Funder
'17
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
2
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ARTS ANGELS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

ARTS ANGELS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.

Where its funders are

ARTS ANGELS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.

TX

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

’17
’20
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

ARTS ANGELS receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31k to it.

Operating margin−41% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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04Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARTS ANGELS?
ARTS ANGELS (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,063 to it, the largest being IRVING AND SARA SELIS FOUNDATION INC ($31,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARTS ANGELS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $31,063 in grants to ARTS ANGELS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARTS ANGELS?
IRVING AND SARA SELIS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $31,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARTS ANGELS 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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