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GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC

GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,313,500 to it, the largest being MORRIS AND ALMA SCHAPIRO FUND ($426,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.9M
Revenue FY2024
16
Funders on record
$1.3M
Grants received
$122k
Net assets
12/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%

Against its field

GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC has grown faster than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($83k)2018 Revenue 103 ($1.2M) Expenses 103 ($1.2M) Net assets 45 ($37k)2019 Revenue 133 ($1.5M) Expenses 118 ($1.4M) Net assets 153 ($127k)2020 Revenue 163 ($1.8M) Expenses 118 ($1.4M) Net assets 666 ($553k)2021 Revenue 162 ($1.8M) Expenses 136 ($1.6M) Net assets 909 ($754k)2022 Revenue 128 ($1.4M) Expenses 147 ($1.8M) Net assets 522 ($434k)2023 Revenue 158 ($1.8M) Expenses 171 ($2.0M) Net assets 211 ($175k)2024 Revenue 168 ($1.9M) Expenses 163 ($1.9M) Net assets 147 ($122k)
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Revenue (168)Expenses (163)Net assets (147)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

22% of GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$68k
17
$81k
18
$90k
19
$425k
20
$202k
21
$321k
22
$258k
23
$54k
24
1.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $43k → $208k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)26% 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 GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC’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

GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

26% 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 GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC.

32%
largest funder
66%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 52% · 2019 65% · 2020 23% · 2021 50% · 2022 52% · 2023 26%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 GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

80% of GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
MA
PA
NJ
TN
SC
TX
FL

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $337k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.

Federal$2.0M
grants $2.0Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$2.0M

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 GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 15%Fundraising 5%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

57%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC?
GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,313,500 to it, the largest being MORRIS AND ALMA SCHAPIRO FUND ($426,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,313,500 in grants to GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER INC?
MORRIS AND ALMA SCHAPIRO FUND is the largest funder on record, with $426,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRAND CENTRAL ATELIER 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.

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 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing