New Jersey · Nonprofit
GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC
GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,010,306 to it, the largest being THE ATLANTIC FOUNDATION ($23,080,846). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $96M
What Grounds for Sculpture Inc does
Mission
Grounds For Sculpture combines art and beckoning spaces to welcome, surprise, and engage all visitors in the artists act of invention.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Visitor Services: designed to provide information services, process membership benefits, coordinate tour groups, perform introductory lectures, assist with special events and collect entrance fees. Staff monitors multiple park entry points as well as information desks located throughout the park. The ticketing process remained mostly as an online, advanced purchase ticketing system that had been implemented several years earlier in order to maintain a safe environment; with members permitted to visit anytime during the week as a perk. In 2025, we welcomed over 200,000 visitors. GFS is committed to equitable access and welcoming in the community through its partnership with both Art-Reach ACCESS and Families First Discovery Pass programs in which over 5,300 free admission tickets were issued. Additionally, reduced admission was offered to 3,298 front-line health care workers and 2,258 veterans/active military.
$3,100,734 spent$2,721,733 earned by the program49% of program spendingARTS EDUCATION: GFSs education programs encourage exploration, discovery, and direct engagement with the arts. Our wellness related programs continued to be highly attended, leveraging the unique healing potential of art and nature. They included yoga,tai chi,meditation, mindfulness, sound baths and wellness walks. Adult education programs also include workshops to learn new skills but not limited to guided tours, immersive introductions to a wide variety of art making materials and techniques, courses that encourage both skill development and relationship building, and seasonal art and horticulture offerings. Family programs provide opportunities to share experiences that include hands-on artmaking, storytelling and guided exploration of our galleries and gardens. There are over 11,000 students for group visits each year. Our wellness related programs continued to be highly attended leveraging the unique healing potential of art and nature.
$1,749,106 spent$381,557 earned by the program28% of program spendingExhibitions: In 2025, over 200,000 people visited GFS. GFS embraces a wide range of contemporary sculpture and related art in its exhibitions. These projects affirm the organizations commitment to broadening our exhibition program and collection in ways that reflect the diversity of the region and the dynamic world around us. GFS maintains the work of the outdoor collection at the highest standards, with ongoing sculpture restoration projects performed during the year.
$1,435,310 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,285,150.
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 2024 to 2025, from $68M to $98M (+44%).
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 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 17% · 2022 1% · 2023 7% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Gary Schneider
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $137k → $16M.
10 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 40% · 2018 30% · 2019 42% · 2020 93% · 2021 75% · 2022 55% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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
49% of GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
79% of GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $762k 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.
Against its field
GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record — $365k federal, $2.6M state.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$250k
- National Endowment for the Arts$115k
- GRANT IN AID$1.7M
- FEDERAL$629k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$156k
- TRUST FUND$121k
- DEDICATED$7k
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 GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 4 related entities
- 60 Sculptors Way LLC · disregarded
- Na · exempt
- Na · partnership
- Johnson Atelier LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC?
- GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,010,306 to it, the largest being THE ATLANTIC FOUNDATION ($23,080,846). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $31,010,306 in grants to GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC?
- THE ATLANTIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,080,846 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 74 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing