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EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH

EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,427,020 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($306,950). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$1.1M
15/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%
01What it does

What Edge and Center Inc the Church does

Mission

The organization was formed exclusively for charitable and educationalpurposes. In furtherance of these purposes, the organization will work tofoster, facilitate, and carry out programs, projects, and activitiesdesigned to support and promote the visual and creative arts primarily insag harbor, new york.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Organization will foster, facilitate, and carry out programs, projects, and activities designed to support and promote the visual and creative arts primarily in sag harbor, new york.

    $1,064,518 spent$209,213 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,064,518.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($299k) Expenses 100 ($96k) Net assets 100 ($203k)2021 Revenue 453 ($1.4M) Expenses 668 ($640k) Net assets 451 ($916k)2022 Revenue 486 ($1.5M) Expenses 1520 ($1.5M) Net assets 449 ($912k)2023 Revenue 524 ($1.6M) Expenses 1537 ($1.5M) Net assets 494 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 556 ($1.7M) Expenses 1645 ($1.6M) Net assets 536 ($1.1M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (556)Expenses (1645)Net assets (536)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $208k to $937k (+352%).

$208k
$937k
$942k
$1.0M
$1.1M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

75% of EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$203k
’20
$713k
’21
−$4k
’22
$91k
’23
$85k
’24
7.7
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed79121112
Joined·+3+3+0+1
No longer listed·1010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $205k → $271k.

11 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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

51% 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 EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH.

22%
largest funder
43%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 88% · 2021 35% · 2022 32% · 2023 21% — 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

36% of EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

89% of EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
SD
OH
PA
RI
CO
NE
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $709k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve7.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)54% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 30%Fundraising 3%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH?
EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,427,020 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($306,950). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,427,020 in grants to EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $306,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 31 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