New York · Nonprofit
DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 164 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,763,947 to it, the largest being THE GREENWICH COLLECTION LTD ($124,650,000). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 164
- Grants received
- $195M
- Net assets
- $271M
What Dia Center for the Arts Inc does
Mission
Dia art foundation is committed to advance, realize, and preserve the vision of artists. Dia's name comes from the greek word for "through," which reflects its role as a conduit for visionary art projects. Since its founding in 1974, dia has commissioned, supported, presented, and preserved exceptional artworks, and fostered lasting relationships with individual artists. Distinguished by its constellation of sites, dia advances the experience, appreciation, and scholarship of art through in-depth, single-artist exhibitions, performances, publications, public and educational programs, and the maintenance of permanent settings of works of art.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions and long-term projects: dia maintains 12 permanent sites and locations. Dia's three locations for presenting changing exhibitions are dia beacon in beacon, ny; dia bridgehampton, in bridgehampton, ny; and dia chelsea in new york, ny. Dia's largest exhibition facility is dia beacon, which houses 240,000 square-feet of exhibition and public program space used for public viewing of the permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, a bookshop and cafe. Dia bridgehampton and dia chelsea present single-artist temporary exhibitions.dia's long-term, site-specific projects are located across the united states and include: walter de maria's the lightning field (1977) located in new mexico, robert smithson's spiral jetty (1970) located in the great salt lake in utah, nancy holt's sun tunnels (1973-76) located in the great basin desert in utah, and cameron rowland's depreciation (2018); two permanent gallery installations in new york city by walter de maria, the new york earth room (1977) and the broken kilometer (1979), and the dan flavin art institute located in bridgehampton, new york. These installations are free to the public, with the exception of the lightning field, for…
$15,360,647 spent$2,783,362 earned by the program73% of program spendingPublic programs and education: dia offers educational and public programs in beacon and new york city and employs 30 educators who design and lead original programs for wide-ranging public audiences. Across its sites based in new york, dia offers a variety of hands-on, artist-led, public programming for all ages; artist-led tours; paid, year-round, artist-led programming for high-school aged youth (in nyc, in partnership with the city's department of youth and community development); and paid apprenticeship, fellowship, and internship programs for young people ages 18-26. Dia chelsea, located in new york city, hosts public programming including the artists on artists lecture series; the contemporary poetry series poetry &; and activations, an off-site intergenerational studio program in partnership with nyc's department of parks & recreation. Dia beacon, located in the hudson valley, hosts an annual arts education program, an artist-in-schools partnership with every school in the beacon city school district; an intensive summer program for k-12 english language-learners; family-focused programming including play sets (in-gallery learning) and saturday studio (hands-on studio…
$1,352,950 spent6% of program spendingPublications: in 2025, dia published senga nengudi: populated air.dia's publication program has produced over 75 volumes including monographs, anthologies, and collections of criticism and scholarship. Through these publications dia has established a tradition of rigorous scholarship and strives to offer in-depth explorations of its exhibitions, sites, and permanent collection.
$878,522 spent4% of program spendingCuratorial research, press, marketing, printed materials
$3,423,622 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,015,741.
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 $229M to $257M (+12%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 15% · 2022 6% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Nathalie De Gunzburg
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 71 funders, grant income fell $127M → $6.7M.
24 of 164 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 DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 164 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
DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 20% · 2019 25% · 2020 32% · 2021 28% · 2022 21% · 2023 13% — 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
48% of DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC'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
83% of DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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. $25M 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
DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$75k
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 DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Dia Sun Tunnels LLC · disregarded
- Land Holdings of Utah LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC?
- DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 164 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,763,947 to it, the largest being THE GREENWICH COLLECTION LTD ($124,650,000). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 164 organizations giving $194,763,947 in grants to DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC, 95 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC?
- THE GREENWICH COLLECTION LTD is the largest funder on record, with $124,650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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 164 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