New York · Nonprofit
CAVE ORGANIZATION INC
CAVE ORGANIZATION INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,598,180 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $703k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Cave Organization Inc does
Mission
LEIMAY fosters artistic exploration, resource sharing, and community engagement through movement-based multidisciplinary creations and collaborations with educational and presenting partners locally, nationally, and internationally (see Schedule O for more)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
WEAVE (Resource Sharing, Community & Relational Research): Through residencies, studio programs, and public presentations, LEIMAY keeps resources in motion, creates spaces for experimentation, and grounds artistic research in lived exchanges. This platform supports artists in the creation and dissemination of their work at CAVE in Brooklyn and beyond.
$42,777 spent$20,653 earned by the program8% of program spendingIMAGINE (Creative Works & Productions): This platform supports the production, presentation, and dissemination of Ximena and Shiges creative work as a duo, with the LEIMAY Ensemble, and through expansive multi- disciplinary creative works for diverse audiences.
$440,086 spent$108,635 earned by the program84% of program spendingEMBODY (LUDUS Education Program): LUDUS is the training and research practice developed by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya and continuously expanded by the LEIMAY Ensemble. Rooted in Butoh, somatics, and experimental theater, it is a living methodology that bridges movement, imagination, and interdisciplinary research. LUDUS takes place across many settings: from Roots & Rhythms on NYC Open Streets, to intensives and research labs at CAVE, to courses at academic institutions, and to collaborative residencies in international contexts.
$39,180 spent$9,077 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $522,043.
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 2022 to 2023, from $252k to $2.6M (+925%).
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: 2021 44% · 2022 23% · 2023 6% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of CAVE ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $39k → $2.5M.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 CAVE ORGANIZATION 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
CAVE ORGANIZATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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 52% · 2021 100% · 2022 61% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of CAVE ORGANIZATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
95% of CAVE ORGANIZATION INC'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. $186k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CAVE ORGANIZATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CAVE ORGANIZATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 CAVE ORGANIZATION 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAVE ORGANIZATION INC: 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 CAVE ORGANIZATION INC?
- CAVE ORGANIZATION INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,598,180 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAVE ORGANIZATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,598,180 in grants to CAVE ORGANIZATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAVE ORGANIZATION INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAVE ORGANIZATION 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 12 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