New York · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW
FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW (New York) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,645,183 to it, the largest being SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($1,800,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Foundation for Cultural Review does
Mission
To foster, promote, encourage and finance research, discussion and publication in the broad field of cultural, intellectual and aesthetic activities, with particular reference to their functioning within the context of american thought and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Publication of "the new criterion". Aproximately 10,000 subscribers and 1,150 other paid circulation as of 6/30/22. All expenses shown in part ix relate to the publication of the magazine.
$1,436,320 spent72% of program spendingPublication of "the new criterion". Aproximately 10,000 subscribers and 1,150 other paid circulation as of 6/30/22. All expenses shown in part ix relate to the publication of the magazine.
$555,001 spent28% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,991,321.
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.
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 $9.4M to $13M (+38%).
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.
70% of FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
James Piereson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $325k → $1.4M.
13 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 29% · 2019 54% · 2020 24% · 2021 21% · 2022 22% · 2023 25% — 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
55% of FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW
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
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW: 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 FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW?
- FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW (New York) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,645,183 to it, the largest being SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($1,800,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $8,645,183 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW?
- SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $1,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 67 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