New York · Nonprofit
Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc
Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $671,900 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($261,400). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $214k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $672k
- Net assets
- $556k
What Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc does
Mission
The Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance provides dynamic arts and cultural experiences for underserved families and youth in a safe, inspiring place for artistic expression-instilling pride and serving as a catalyst for community transformation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Rising Stars program is JAACA's signature education series designed to inspire and empower children and families through hands-on, high-quality arts instruction. Focused on underserved populations in the Joseph Avenue neighborhood, the program offers free dance and music education to elementary and pre-teen participants. A cornerstone of the series is the 10-week Bucket Drumming classes and Dance Fusion classes taught by instructors from The Hochstein School, culminating in the ROCstarz Celebration: a public performance that showcases students' talents and growth.
$9,421 spent19% of program spendingPresented as part of the Rochester Fringe Festival, "Cirque 101" is a family-friendly event that introduces audiences of all ages to the thrilling world of circus arts. This free workshop, held over two Saturdays, features professional teaching-artists skilled in the circus arts and juggling in a vibrant and interactive format. Cirque 101 includes hands-on learning opportunities for youth and families, offering a safe and inclusive environment to explore balance, coordination, and creativity.
$5,686 spent11% of program spendingDebut Artists is JAACA's performance series that shines a spotlight on exceptional emerging talent from across the region and beyond. Each event introduces new paraprofessional performers to Rochester audiences. Past performers have included classical vocalists, chamber ensembles, jazz trios, and solo instrumentalists, each bringing a fresh perspective and an inspiring story to the stage. Hosted in intimate community venues, the series offers a unique opportunity for cultural exchange and connection between artists and audiences, free for all to attend.
$4,412 spent9% of program spendingThere were other small programs that occured during the year.
$31,270 spent62% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $50,789.
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 2022 to 2023, from $302k to $617k (+105%).
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: 2022 31% · 2023 14% · 2024 26% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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
David Pacific
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $11k → $107k.
5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance 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
Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2019 41% · 2020 45% · 2021 21% · 2022 57% · 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
50% of Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
76% of Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc'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. $320k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $420k on record.
- Department of the Interior$400k
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
24% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc?
- Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $671,900 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($261,400). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $671,900 in grants to Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc?
- ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $261,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance 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.
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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 29 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