New York · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE INC
CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $582,360 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($491,360). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $219k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $582k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Center for Initiatives in Art & Culture Inc does
Mission
Center for initiatives in art & culture, inc.(iac) provides educational services in the fine, decorative, and visual arts as well as architecture. Iac's primary activities are educational conferences and symposia, publications, and exhibitions. The services provided by iac are intended to advance and enhance knowledge within the targeted audiences regarding the arts & architecture, by adopting an interdisciplinary approach that investigates, among other issues, social history and material culture; the life and work of specific artists, architects and craftspeople working in a wide variety of media; fabrication methods, conservation techniques and the effect of technology; and connoisseurship. The larger objective is the preservation and protection of cultural resources & cultural patrimony.the educational services of iac will benefit the community by providing new and enhanced skills and knowledge to the target audiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
American art
$62,950 spent$62,658 earned by the program44% of program spendingArts & crafts
$73,791 spent$44,949 earned by the program52% of program spendingWebinars
$6,333 spent$1,500 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $143,074.
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 2023 to 2024, from $27k to $54k (+101%).
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.
100% of CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $95k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE 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
CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 74% · 2023 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
93% of CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE 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 $41k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $541k 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
CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
Organizations like CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE 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 CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE INC?
- CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $582,360 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($491,360). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $582,360 in grants to CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $491,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE 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 6 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