New York · Nonprofit
LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC
LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC (New York) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,886,053 to it, the largest being UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($3,136,300). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Shs Foundationshared funders
- Queens Theatre in the Park Incportfolio match
- New York City Tourism Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 52% · 2019 62% · 2020 65% · 2021 60% · 2022 65% · 2023 59% · 2024 68% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL 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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $259k → $879k.
6 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $351k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alliance for Downtown New York Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 53% · 2019 72% · 2020 46% · 2021 58% · 2022 29% · 2023 40% — broadly stable.
“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
29% of LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
95% of LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL 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. $590k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 47 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Shs Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Queens Theatre in the Park Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York City Tourism Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lake Placid Association for Music Drama and Art Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deborah Buck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rdk Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Laurie M Tisch Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 81 organizations that share your funders · funds 112 organizations near you
- Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Daviesshared fundersNY · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- The Marc Haas Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- Arnhold Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 109 organizations that share your funders · funds 213 organizations near you
- Lily Auchincloss Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 90 organizations that share your funders · funds 244 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $285k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$285k
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 LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC?
- LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC (New York) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,886,053 to it, the largest being UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($3,136,300). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $7,886,053 in grants to LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC?
- UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,136,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 47funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing