New York · Nonprofit
CENTRAL CURRENT INC
CENTRAL CURRENT INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,163,125 to it, the largest being CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($323,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $654k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $169k
What Central Current Inc does
Mission
Central current, inc. Is a nonprofit,nonpartisan news organization dedicated to bringing independent online news to central new york. We provide fact-based news and analysis about the challenges, solutions and opportunities we all share living in central new york. Our news and multimedia storytelling is exclusively published and distributed online through our website, newsletters and social media. We strive to be an inclusive and responsive resource for news and information. Our goal is to foster civic engagement and democratic governance, and to help build a more prosperous and healthy community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Central current, inc. Is a nonprofit,nonpartisan news organization dedicated to bringing independent online news to central new york. We provide fact-based news and analysis about the challenges, solutions and opportunities we all share living in central new york. Our news and multimedia storytelling is exclusively published and distributed online through our website, newsletters and social media. We strive to be an inclusive and responsive resource for news and information. Our goal is to foster civic engagement and democratic governance, and to help build a more prosperous and healthy community.
$396,104 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $396,104.
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 2024 to 2025, from $91k to $247k (+170%).
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 CENTRAL CURRENT 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. 1 of the last 6 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
Maximilian Eyle
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $358k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 CENTRAL CURRENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
CENTRAL CURRENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 CENTRAL CURRENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 43% · 2023 56% — 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
79% of CENTRAL CURRENT 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. $379k 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
CENTRAL CURRENT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTRAL CURRENT 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
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 CENTRAL CURRENT 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 CENTRAL CURRENT INC?
- CENTRAL CURRENT INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,163,125 to it, the largest being CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($323,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL CURRENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,163,125 in grants to CENTRAL CURRENT INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL CURRENT INC?
- CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $323,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL CURRENT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 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