New York · Nonprofit
JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING
JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,362,819 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($760,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning does
Mission
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (jcal) is a multi-disciplinary art center that celebrates creative expression by promoting the works of visual and performing artists and provides accessible arts education programs that encourage participation in order to contribute to the diverse communities of queens and surrounding new york counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1972, jcal is a multidisciplinary arts center serving the communities of southeast queens in new york city. Jcal is the only member of the cultural institutions group - the historic public-private partnership with the city of new york - located in our community. Our mission is to offer quality visual and performing arts, and to provide accessible education programs to encourage participation in the arts. We do this through showcasing emerging and established local artists and performers, and through pioneering multicultural initiatives that have served four generations in queens - where 2.4 million african-american, caribbean-american, indo-asian, african, latinx, caucasian, native american and indigenous artists and audiences live, work and learn. Each year, jcal engages more than 53,000 visitors through offering visual art, dance, music, and theater programs.our cultural campus begins at our 45,000 square-foot headquarters, the jamaica arts center (jac). Located in a 19th century landmark (the former queens registry of titles and deeds), jac offers two art galleries and five dance studios; studios for music, ceramics and animation; and a 99-seat studio theater and…
$2,118,922 spent$449,914 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,118,922.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.4M to $8.3M (+251%).
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: 2019 54% · 2020 52% · 2021 54% · 2022 54% · 2023 49% · 2024 56% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING’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. 3 of the last 7 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
Leonard Jacobs
Executive director
Board chair
David Thomas
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $30k → $870k.
2 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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
JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 54% · 2019 47% · 2020 55% · 2021 45% · 2022 39% · 2023 69% — 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
33% of JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
86% of JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING is better cushioned 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
Government funding JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$105k
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 JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING: 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 JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING?
- JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,362,819 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($760,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,362,819 in grants to JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $760,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 28 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