New York · Nonprofit
CULTURE FOR ONE
CULTURE FOR ONE (New York) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,046,814 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($342,154). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $513k
What Culture for One does
Mission
Cfo enriches the lives of nyc children in foster care through the transformative power of the arts. But nurturing their talents and interests, we empower children to envision brighter futures and pursue their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provides free, high-quality opportunities to inspire their creativity, stimulate their intellect and introduce them to broader possibilities for their future. The organization uses cultural excursions, creative workshops, art scholarships, take home art projects and one-to-one mentoring to nurture big dreams and encourage higher education and career planning. Through exposure to the arts and positive role modles,the orgainization helps these vulnerable youth build confidence, aquire life skills, identify new indentify new interests and improve their academic performance.
The organization provides free, high-quality opportunities to inspire their creativity, stimulate their intellect and introduce them to broader possibilities for their future. The organization uses cultural excursions, creative workshops, art scholarships, take home art projects and one-to-one mentoring to nurture big dreams and encourage higher education and career planning. Through exposure to the arts and positive role modles,the orgainization helps these vulnerable youth build confidence, aquire life skills, identify new indentify new interests and improve their academic performance.
$634,800 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $634,800.
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 2024 to 2025, from $427k to $581k (+36%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 10% · 2022 14% · 2023 18% · 2024 11% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of CULTURE FOR ONE’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. 3 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.
Board chair
Mara Kane
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $40k → $416k.
9 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 CULTURE FOR ONE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
CULTURE FOR ONE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
42% 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 CULTURE FOR ONE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 55% · 2019 24% · 2020 21% · 2021 31% · 2022 39% · 2023 24% — 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
38% of CULTURE FOR ONE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
60% of CULTURE FOR ONE'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. $798k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CULTURE FOR ONE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CULTURE FOR ONE
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 CULTURE FOR ONE: 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 CULTURE FOR ONE?
- CULTURE FOR ONE (New York) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,046,814 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($342,154). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CULTURE FOR ONE have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $2,046,814 in grants to CULTURE FOR ONE, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CULTURE FOR ONE?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $342,154 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CULTURE FOR ONE 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 43 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