New York · Nonprofit
CUE ART FOUNDATION
CUE ART FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,722,858 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,125,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $297k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Cue Art Foundation does
Mission
CUE Art Foundation is a visual arts organization dedicated to creating essential career and educational opportunities for emerging and underrecognized artists of all ages. Through exhibitions, arts education, and public programs, CUE provides artists, writers, students, and arts workers with meaningful experiences and resources that impact their careers and allow them to reach diverse audiences who benefit from exposure to new work. CUE carries out its mission through its core programs, which include solo and group exhibitions; mentorship andpublication opportunities for emerging writers; public events that bring artists together with the broader communities; and arts education for high school students.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions Program: CUEs exhibition program presents new and exceptionally strong work by emerging and underrecognized artists from across the United States, while providing these artists with exposure and resources to help them further their artistic careers. CUE currently exhibits artist work in solo exhibitions and group exhibitions, for which selected awardees are mentored by notable artists and curators. These exhibitions are selected through a national open call process.
$224,785 spent$7,620 earned by the program55% of program spendingEducation Program: CUE Teen Collective is a free, year-long after school program for NYC high school students who are interested in exploring careers in the fine arts. Participants meet during the school year to investigate the contemporary art world, develop professional skills, and produce artwork for a group exhibition at CUEs gallery space. Through talks and workshops, field trips, and group critique, students learn from arts professionals, gaining exposure to various approaches and careers in the arts.
$81,740 spent20% of program spendingWriting Program: The Art Critic Mentorship Program (ACMP) pairs emerging writers with art critic mentors to produce original long-form critical essays about the work of artists exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions at CUE. The program is open to writers of any age in the early stages of their careers. Essays commissioned through the program are published by CUE in full-color print exhibition catalogues, which are distributed at the gallery and are also made available and promoted online on CUEs website and social media.
$73,565 spent18% of program spendingOther program services 4: evercore / cue artist empowerment award; professional development workshops.
$28,605 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $408,695.
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 $1.7M to $1.5M (−14%).
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 12% · 2018 13% · 2019 14% · 2020 15% · 2021 38% · 2022 11% · 2023 11% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of CUE ART FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 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
Thomas Ky Hsu
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $155k → $1k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 CUE ART FOUNDATION’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
CUE ART FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 CUE ART FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 47% · 2019 54% · 2020 58% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of CUE ART FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
87% of CUE ART FOUNDATION'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 $227k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CUE ART FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CUE ART FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $180k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$180k
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 CUE ART FOUNDATION
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 CUE ART FOUNDATION: 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 CUE ART FOUNDATION?
- CUE ART FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,722,858 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,125,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CUE ART FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,722,858 in grants to CUE ART FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CUE ART FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CUE ART FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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