New York · Nonprofit
CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART
CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,614 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($262,820). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $617k
- Net assets
- $-1704450
What Church Street School for Music and Art does
Mission
Church Street School for Music and Art provides process-oriented art and music education to students of all ages. Our affordable programs serve a range of socially, culturally, and economically diverse communities. We are the only not-for-profit community-based school for the arts in lower manhattan. Church street school is dedicated to the idea that individual experience and personal discovery foster creative thinking and confidence. The goal is always to give expression to a student's natural musical and artistic sensibility through direct physical participation and hands-on creation, while providing a strong foundation in technique and theory.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Church street school is a full age-range institution, providing preschool classes, after school programs, vacation camps, and classes for teens and adults, with highly acclaimed music and art faculty from around the world. Programs offered at the school include "creative arts club" after school program; the "72" teen program;group/private instrumental lessons; dalcroze eurhythmics; visual art classes; specialty arts workshops;parent/child classes; music therapy for special needs students. Concerts/exhibits by our students and teaching artists are also open to the public. As part of our commitment to accessibility, cssma offers free opportunities to participate in the school's offerings each year. For example, cssma holds two annual open house events when we provide free preschool music classes, all-age open art classes, group instrumental lessons and performances to the community. In addition, each week cssma offers a free children's chorus onsite and three free seniors chorus programs at sites throughout lower manhattan.
$1,338,746 spentof which $120,980 as grants$1,441,705 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,338,746.
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 2017 to 2018, from $578k to $224k (−61%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 22% · 2022 16% · 2023 7% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Rob Elder
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $110k → $83k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART’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
CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 70% · 2019 57% · 2020 43% · 2021 36% · 2022 26% · 2023 48% — 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
23% of CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
86% of CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART'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 $89k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $528k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART's revenue fell 20% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART?
- CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $616,614 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($262,820). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $616,614 in grants to CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $262,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART 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 21 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