New York · Nonprofit
ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION
ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,946,230 to it, the largest being The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc ($5,200,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Encounter for Culture and Education does
Mission
The organization is an editor, publisher and distributor of books related to democratic society which have no traditional means of publication.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Publication and distribution of books about democratic society which have no other means of publication.
$1,414,352 spent34% of program spendingPublication of books about democratic society which have no other means of publication.
$2,718,677 spent66% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,133,029.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.2M to $5.6M (+32%).
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
Victor David Hanson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $195k → $1.7M.
5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION’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
ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 27% · 2020 79% · 2021 69% · 2022 64% · 2023 61% — 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
45% of ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $375k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION: 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 ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION?
- ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,946,230 to it, the largest being The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc ($5,200,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $7,946,230 in grants to ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION?
- The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION 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 27 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