New York · Nonprofit
LIVING TRADITIONS INC
LIVING TRADITIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,104,404 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($471,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $98k
What Living Traditions Inc does
Mission
Living traditions, inc. Is a multi-faceted arts space showcasing evolving folk and traditional music and art from new york city, the americas, and the world. Our programming supports artists, fosters muti-generational community and provides enrichment and education about our shared musical heritage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy24, jalopy's annual season included 6 festivals, 3-5 weekly concerts at its home location and numerous performances at stages across the city and state. The brooklyn folk festival celebrated its 15th year, partnering with smithsonian folkways for their 75th anniversary and bringing legendary artists to the stage. In-house concerts featured both local emerging artists, traveling bands and recognized leaders. Jalopy began a new series, called folk music masters, and hosted 4 concerts with an array of artists. Jalopy produced concerts at venues in manhattan, brooklyn, queens, hudson ny and sheffield mass. Jalopy hosted dozens of weekly music classes and workshops each week, employing 35 teaching artists and serving over 800 adults and children. Through the community through music program, jalopy served 1200 brooklyn public school children with 8-12 weeks of music enrichment. Jalopy records released 5 new albums of folk and traditional music, and toured japan with 4 artists.
$1,052,061 spentof which $10,153 as grants$555,186 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,052,061.
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 2022 to 2023, from $270k to $584k (+116%).
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 8% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 62% · 2023 29% · 2024 8% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of LIVING TRADITIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $90k → $187k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 TRADITIONS 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 TRADITIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 TRADITIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 51% · 2019 52% · 2020 50% · 2021 44% · 2022 37% · 2023 28% — 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
57% of LIVING TRADITIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
57% of LIVING TRADITIONS 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 $479k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $625k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 TRADITIONS INC has grown faster 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 TRADITIONS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
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 TRADITIONS 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 LIVING TRADITIONS 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 LIVING TRADITIONS INC?
- LIVING TRADITIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,104,404 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($471,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIVING TRADITIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,104,404 in grants to LIVING TRADITIONS INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING TRADITIONS INC?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $471,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING TRADITIONS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 22 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