New York · Nonprofit
LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC
LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,376,285 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($372,929). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Living Arts International Inc does
Mission
Living arts international (lai) incubates cultural initiatives that contribute to a peaceful, sustainable future, using the living arts as a catalyst for change. Lai began in cambodia and is shaped by its identity as a grassroots, post-conflict, non-profit organization.lai has spun-off programs that enable cultural development in the mekong region, and in the global south. Lai is now embarking on an ambitious project to bring global south communities into the heart of global efforts to democratize access to cultural heritage, through technological innovation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cambodian living arts (cla) is a catalyst within a vibrant arts sector in cambodia, inspiring new generations. Cla's main program activities are making small grants to individual and informal groups of cambodian artists, for projects and creating new work; offering training, scholarships and leadership development to emerging arts professionals (including artists), and organising artistic and cultural events e.g. Performances and festivals.
$507,420 spent$70,018 earned by the program58% of program spendingMekong cultural hub (mch) empowers diverse cultural practitioners to bring to life their visions for a sustainable and inclusive asia. Mch's main activities include facilitating networking, learning and development activities for cultural workers (including artists) e.g. Trainings, exchanges and conferences. Mch also organises public events including online talks, and online/ in-person conferences. From time to time mch supports participants in its programs with micro-grants.
$321,577 spentof which $26,575 as grants$20,917 earned by the program37% of program spendingConnecting south (global south) is lai's transnational program, which connects cultural workers and cultural organisations, with a particular focus on the global south, including asia and africa. Activities of connecting south include south south arts fellowships and a project exploring democratisation of access to heritage using technologies.
$38,909 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $867,906.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.8M to $2.4M (+33%).
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: 2023 8% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC’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. 2 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
Phloeun Prim
Executive director
Board chair
Richard C Helfer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $101k → $162k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL 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
LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 68% · 2019 61% · 2020 39% · 2021 44% · 2022 26% · 2023 31% — 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
40% of LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
56% of LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $610k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $766k 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.
Against its field
LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- Department of State$6k
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 LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC?
- LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,376,285 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($372,929). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,376,285 in grants to LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $372,929 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL 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 17 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