New York · Nonprofit
COOL CULTURE INC
COOL CULTURE INC (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,261,388 to it, the largest being The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc ($810,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $873k
What Cool Culture Inc does
Mission
To amplify the voices of families and strengthen the power of historically marginalized communities through engagement with art and culture, both within cultural institutions and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
COOL CULTURE ENVISIONS AN EQUITABLE SOCIETY THAT VALUES,EMBRACES AND IS ENRICHED BY ALL CULTURES. CITYWIDE CULTURAL ACCESS PROGRAM: The program provides 50,000 families in 450 Early Childhood Centers and Title 1 Department of Education schools with a Cool Culture Family Pass that offers families a year of unlimited, free admission for up to five people to our 90 New York City cultural institution partners. NEIGHBORHOOD-BASED ACTION PROJECTS: Brings art to neighborhood-based communities including Harlem, Chinatown, Corona, Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, building relationships between families, educators, and museum professionals who work together to develop tailored programming for children and families. LABORATORY FOR NEW AUDIENCES PROGRAM: Creates and implements a series of seminars that guide the next generation of museum professionals to develop participatory programming. WE ARE ALL CURATORS: Partnerships with museum partners to ideate and co-create spaces where our families and educators develop agency in exploring objects in their home, classroom, and community and reassess what is considered and valued as art.
$1,072,238 spent$654,046 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,072,238.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $825k (−43%).
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 50% · 2018 13% · 2019 17% · 2020 17% · 2021 12% · 2022 50% · 2023 22% · 2024 15% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of COOL CULTURE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Candice Anderson
Executive director
Board chair
Ahmed Yearwood
Director/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $73k → $443k.
6 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 COOL CULTURE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
COOL CULTURE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 23% · 2019 31% · 2020 35% · 2021 63% · 2022 64% · 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of COOL CULTURE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
COOL CULTURE INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $291k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
COOL CULTURE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COOL CULTURE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $365k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$365k
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 COOL 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
71% 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 COOL 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 COOL CULTURE INC?
- COOL CULTURE INC (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,261,388 to it, the largest being The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc ($810,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COOL CULTURE INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,261,388 in grants to COOL CULTURE INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COOL CULTURE INC?
- The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc is the largest funder on record, with $810,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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