New York · Nonprofit
ASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION
ASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,242 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($210,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $302k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation does
Mission
Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting African Diaspora arts and culture. Through its programsAsase Yaa School of the Arts Childrens Camp Arts Outreach and African American Dance Theaterit empowers the community by offering dance and music
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation offers a wide range of programs that emphasize the positive impact of culturally responsive arts on communities. These include: Asase Yaa School of the Arts offering 37 weeks of intensive training in dance music and theater for youth ages 3-18. Asase Yaa Arts Outreach providing a culturally rich arts curriculum to K-12 students focusing on African Caribbean and African American history and culture. Asase Yaa Youth Summer Employment Initiative providing summer jobs and career development for youth ages 14-19 with opportunities for community outreach and internships. Asase Yaa Summer Camp offering 6 weeks of arts and cultural programming for youth ages 2-15 culminating in a multidisciplinary production. Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater a Bessie Award-winning company creating transformative works that challenge perceptions of African culture in the arts. AY WELL+FIT a community-based wellness center offering fitness dance and wellness services to support physical mental emotional and spiritual well-being. These programs aim to enrich educational social and cultural development while preserving and honoring African and African American…
$401,916 spent$592,254 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $401,916.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3k to $335k (+10189%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 9% · 2023 0% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of ASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Kofi Williams
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $72k → $60k.
From the IRS filings of ASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION’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
ASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 83% — 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
89% of ASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
ASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASASE YAA CULTURAL 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 ASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION?
- ASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,242 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($210,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $302,242 in grants to ASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASASE YAA CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASASE YAA CULTURAL 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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