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CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION INC

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,500 to it, the largest being HAUSER & WIRTH INSTITUTE INC ($28,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$205k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$54k
Net assets
$10M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Carolee Schneemann Foundation Inc does

Program

  1. 2024 major events1)ongoing: released 60 years' worth of journals, diaries, and sketchbooks as a digital archive with stanford university 2)ongoing: loan artworks for scholarly exhibitions and screenings in us, europe, and asia. Grant image permissions for educational materials. 3)ongoing: grant permission for artist's writings and artworks in numerous print and online publications.4)january 2024: closing events (concerts and performances) for exhibition in new york 5)april 2024: schneemann's first major exhibition in sao paulo, brazil.6)june 2024: foundation receives frankenthaler climate change initiative award and hosts open house in new paltz.7)august 2024: release of major digital archive with stanford university; series of lectures and papers created around the summer launch.8)october 2024: book launch and lecture for out of paper, new book on schneemann, at csf and women's studio workshop.

    $297,864 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

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 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($105k) Net assets 100 ($228k)2018 Revenue 3 ($3k) Expenses 2 ($2k) Net assets 101 ($229k)2019 Revenue 3640 ($3.1M) Expenses 94 ($99k) Net assets 1465 ($3.3M)2020 Revenue 8485 ($7.2M) Expenses 238 ($250k) Net assets 4581 ($10M)2021 Revenue 241 ($205k) Expenses 240 ($253k) Net assets 4640 ($11M)2022 Revenue 180 ($153k) Expenses 239 ($252k) Net assets 4404 ($10M)2023 Revenue 468 ($398k) Expenses 293 ($309k) Net assets 4559 ($10M)2024 Revenue 241 ($205k) Expenses 326 ($343k) Net assets 4582 ($10M)
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Revenue (241)Expenses (326)Net assets (4582)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 2019 to 2020, from $3.3M to $10M (+213%).

$229k
$231k
$3.3M
$10M
$11M
$10M
$10M
$10M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

Board chair

Sara Vance Waddell

President/chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

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Joined·+0+0+2+0+0+3+3
No longer listed·0010023
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $29k → $5k.

From the IRS filings of CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION INC’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

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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

53%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 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

81% of CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
OH

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

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’23
New York out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION INC?
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,500 to it, the largest being HAUSER & WIRTH INSTITUTE INC ($28,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $53,500 in grants to CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION INC?
HAUSER & WIRTH INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $28,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN FOUNDATION 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.

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 3 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