New York · Nonprofit
Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc
Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc (New York) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,176,629 to it, the largest being Bauer Family Foundation ($1,510,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $46M
What Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc does
Mission
Caramoor's mission is to enrich the lives of audiences through innovative and diverse musical performances of the highest quality, mentor young professional musicians, and engage children through interactive educational experiences that deepen their relationship to and understanding of music. These three fundamentalsmusic performance, musician mentoring, and music educationinfuse everything we do.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Musical Performances - See Schedule O
$4,059,604 spent$769,914 earned by the program65% of program spendingRosen House, Gardens and Estate - See Schedule OThe Rosen House is a Mediterranean revival villa at the center of the Caramoor campus. In recognition of the unsurpassed quality and great quantity of European period rooms incorporated in the house, Caramoor was recognized as nationally significant on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. Built in the 1930s, the Rosen House now serves as a concert venue, museum, and archive. Gardens and EstateThe 81-acre Caramoor campus is comprised of four primary buildings - today known as the Rosen House, the Administration Building, the Gifford Residence, and the Diane Moss Education Center - as well as ancillary buildings and landscape features, gardens, lawns, and woodland areas. A central focus of the campus is the Venetian Theater, a tented, 1,800-seat venue.Forty-five acres of the campus is deer-fenced and open to the visiting public, including the Sunken Garden, established in 1912; a Mediterranean Revival pavilion; an alley of cedar trees; and a number of gardens designed in the 1930s by landscape architect and Katonah resident Robert Ludlow Fowler, Jr.
$1,360,451 spent$388,855 earned by the program22% of program spendingMentoring and Arts-In-Education - See Schedule OThe development of emerging artists is central to Caramoor's mission and woven into much of our programming. Through our mentoring programs, we identify, train, and promote the next generation of vocal and instrumental artists.Young artists from Caramoor's chamber mentorship program, Evnin Rising Stars, led by Guest Artistic Director Marcy Rosen, performed a pair of concerts in the fall following a week of workshops, reading sessions, and ensemble rehearsals alongside distinguished artist mentors violist Shmuel Ashkenasi and double bassist Edgar Meyer. The 2023 Rising Stars were violinists Maria Ioudenitch, Lun Li, and Amarins Wierdsma; violists Njord Fossnes and Cara Pogossian; cellists Gabriel Martins and Chase Park; and pianist Janice Carissa. Over the course of two programs, they performed works by Boccherini, Mozart, Schubert, and Dohnanyi, as well as Meyer's Quintet for String Quartet and Double Bass. During Spring 2023, Caramoor's 2022-23 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence, the Ivalas Quartet, performed works by Eleanor Alberga, Osvaldo Golijov, and Beethoven. The Abeo Quartet, Caramoor's 2023-24 Ernst Stiefel String…
$790,162 spent$62,096 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,210,217.
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.
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 $54M to $45M (−16%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 7% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Edward Lewis III
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $629k → $1.3M.
20 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 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
Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
52% 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 Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 19% · 2019 18% · 2020 40% · 2021 23% · 2022 12% · 2023 10% — 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
41% of Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
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 Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.8M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Against its field
Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc's revenue fell 58% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $403k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$220k
- Department of the Interior$183k
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.
Organizations like Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc?
- Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc (New York) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,176,629 to it, the largest being Bauer Family Foundation ($1,510,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $12,176,629 in grants to Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc?
- Bauer Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,510,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 114 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