New York · Nonprofit
HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (New York) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,775,083 to it, the largest being SHERMAN FAIRCHILD FOUNDATION INC ($2,500,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $107M
What Hispanic Society of America does
Mission
The mission of the Hispanic Society of America is to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, stimulate appreciation for, and advance knowledge of, works directly related to the arts, literature, and history of the countries wherein spanish and portuguese are or have been predominant spoken languages, all in the service of the public and in accordance with the highest professional standards.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Building on the momentum generated by the reopening of its main galleries and the return of its most celebrated treasures, fy25 marked a year of growth, innovation, and deeper community engagement for the hispanic society museum & library. Through a dynamic exhibition program, the museum continued to showcase the breadth of its collections while amplifying contemporary voices and fostering new dialogues between past and present. Highlights included adriana varejo: don't forget, we come from the tropics, a powerful exploration of ecology, history and the amazon, as well as spanish style: fashion illuminated, which examined the enduring influence of hispanic art and culture on fashion and design. The museum also expanded its public programming, educational initiatives, and scholarly activities, welcoming diverse audiences through lectures, performances, family programs, and community partnerships. As a free cultural institution serving washington heights and beyond, the hispanic society strengthened its role as a vibrant center for the study, preservation, and celebration of the arts, cultures, and histories of the hispanic world.modern libraryfy25 was a year of active engagement,…
$4,924,064 spent$131,215 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,924,064.
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 2017 to 2018, from $41M to $83M (+103%).
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 0% · 2018 7% · 2019 0% · 2020 23% · 2021 9% · 2022 11% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA’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. 4 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
Guillaume Kientz
Executive director and CEO
Board chair
Mark H Rosenberg
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $228k → $1.4M.
9 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $12M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Hispanic Sty of America Tr No 2 Xxxxx9001). These are real filings, and they are not money HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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 44% · 2018 55% · 2019 26% · 2020 58% · 2021 60% · 2022 27% · 2023 70% — 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
46% of HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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
HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $748k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$623k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$125k
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 HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA: 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 HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA?
- HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (New York) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,775,083 to it, the largest being SHERMAN FAIRCHILD FOUNDATION INC ($2,500,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $10,775,083 in grants to HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA?
- SHERMAN FAIRCHILD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 56 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