New York · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC
COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,414,193 to it, the largest being THE COUNTESS MOIRA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($585,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Community-Word Project Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collaborative arts residencies: community-word project establishes in-school and after-school collaborative arts residencies (car) in new york city title I public schools as well as workshops through nyc public library partners to bring professional writers and artists to youth with a unique and stimulating arts-integrated curriculum. Poetry and creative writing are central to cwp programs; the overarching pedagogy is interdisciplinary creative expression and artmaking. Creative writers are paired with visual artists, musicians, dancers, or theater artists to teach weekly during arts residencies. Teaching artists work with classroom teachers to integrate city, state, and national education standards into their lessons. Accessing alternative learning channels, students engage in the classroom, develop literacy and creative and critical thinking skills, and strengthen their individual and collective voices. Classroom programs are further supported by the addition of teaching artist interns to apprentice with experienced teaching artists. During the 2024-25 academic year, cwp brought residencies to 32 public schools and facilitated 12 workshops in nyc public libraries; trained 26…
$818,436 spent$262,778 earned by the program66% of program spendingTeaching artist project (tap):tap provides professional artists with comprehensive, skills-training seminars incorporating creative and multi-modal activities and on-the-job internships to provide students with the qualified teaching artists they need to meet their individual needs and exceed city- and state-mandated learning standards.tap leads the tap cohort, a group of 20 arts-in-education organizationsproviding arts engagement for youth and adults, as well as professionaldevelopment for the teaching artist field locally and nationally.
$319,945 spent$24,413 earned by the program26% of program spendingProfessional development cwp holds professional development seminars and workshops to serve new and advanced teaching artists.
$95,342 spent$24,470 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: $1,233,723.
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 $1.6M to $1.0M (−35%).
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 13% · 2018 12% · 2019 10% · 2020 18% · 2021 29% · 2022 19% · 2023 10% · 2024 16% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Michele Kotler
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $57k → $542k.
17 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 25% · 2019 32% · 2020 16% · 2021 35% · 2022 18% · 2023 17% — 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
41% of COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
71% of COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT 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. $568k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $270k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$270k
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 COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT 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 COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC?
- COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,414,193 to it, the largest being THE COUNTESS MOIRA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($585,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $3,414,193 in grants to COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC?
- THE COUNTESS MOIRA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $585,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 70 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