New York · Nonprofit
Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc
Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,867,815 to it, the largest being The Community Foundation of Utah ($550,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $439k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $725k
What Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc does
Mission
Connecting Latter-day Saint artists to a worldwide audience - artistically, intellectually and spiritually.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Intersection of Cultural Relevance and Divine Creativity: The Artists Residency at the Center The second Residency cohort joined us in New York October 9-14, 2024: * Vanessa Cook, Switzerland, choreography * Dylan Findley, Ohio, music composition * Michelle Nixon, Utah, visual art * Isaac Richards, Utah, literature * Justin Wheatley, Utah, visual art * Darlene Young, Utah, poetry They were chosen by a notable jury: Tacey M. Atsitty, Richard Bushman, Rose Datoc Dall, Nancy Heuston, Susan Elizabeth Howe, Jared Oaks, and Aaron Toronto. The artists spent one week sharing a townhouse in New York City, advancing work on discipline-specific projects of their own design, participating in group outings including a Broadway show, a walking tour through art galleries in Chelsea, guest speakers, communal meals, and professional development activities. As one 2024 resident reflected, "for me was the people... The biggest highlight of the residency for me was the people...The connections I made were truly meaningful and inspiring. I especially enjoyed the conversations we had while traveling to different events or winding down in the evenings. Sharing experiences like a Broadway musical or…
$285,730 spent49% of program spendingCultural Relevance Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader The Center published its landmark volume of visual art of the Latter-day Saints from the nineteenth-century to the present, including art by, for, or about Mormons. Scholars from various disciplines, perspectives, and backgrounds contributed individual chapters with rigorous research and analysis of Latter-day Saint artistic production and culture. Together, the twenty-two chapters covered panorama paintings, quilts, architecture, sculpture, and cartoons, to film, gallery installations, indigenous works and more to offer a complex and comprehensive picture of Mormon visual art with unprecedented breadth and depth. Highlighting a broad range of critical approaches from scholars both inside and outside the faith tradition, this publication was the first of its kind about Latter-day Saint art. The volume was published by Oxford University Press on August 27, 2024, edited by Amanda Beardsley and Mason Kamana Allred, and featured a foreword from Center co-founders, Richard L. Bushman and Glen Nelson. Carnegie Hall Performance On April 9th, 2024, the celebrated soprano Rachel Willis-Srensen made her New York recital debut at…
$257,529 spent$7,255 earned by the program45% of program spendingDivine Creativity Come Follow Me - Art Companion Our pioneering resource The Come Follow Me (Art Companion) continued to provide an artistic supplement to weekly Gospel learning for every age and to spark thoughtful discussion through the Book of Mormon, featuring 52 artistic creations throughout the year.
$34,138 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $577,397.
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 2020 to 2021, from $484k to $1.1M (+127%).
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 0% · 2021 0% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts 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. 2 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
Mykal Urbina
Executive Director
Board chair
Stanley Hainsworth
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $113k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Latter-Day Saint Arts 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 Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 77% · 2022 76% · 2023 49% — 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
60% of Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
60% of Center for Latter-Day Saint 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 $739k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.9M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Center for Latter-Day Saint 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
70% 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 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc?
- Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,867,815 to it, the largest being The Community Foundation of Utah ($550,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,867,815 in grants to Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc?
- The Community Foundation of Utah is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Latter-Day Saint 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 15 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