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.
Against its field
COOL CULTURE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Clark Foundationshared funders
- Queens Theatre in the Park Incportfolio match
- Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 (64% 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
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 12 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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 42 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Clark Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Queens Theatre in the Park Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joy of Giving Something Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leroy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The New York Urban League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Harlem Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Council for the Humanitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- Gray Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Daviesshared fundersNY · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 42funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing