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LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC

LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,389 to it, the largest being GREATER BINGHAMTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ($90,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$218k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$278k
Net assets
$58k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Luma Arts Initiative Inc does

Mission

The purpose of the organization is to connect artists to emerging technology and allow them to expand the scope and audience of their work through participation in the luma projection arts festival and similar emerging tech arts presentations. In addition, the organization seeks to contribute to greater binghamton's economic development by supporting the development of an arts and entertainment culture, attracting regional, national and international tourism.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support of the luma projection arts festival

    $174,496 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $174,496.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($73k) Net assets 100 ($3k)2020 Revenue 92 ($69k) Expenses 75 ($54k) Net assets 688 ($17k)2021 Revenue 118 ($89k) Expenses 135 ($98k) Net assets 339 ($8k)2022 Revenue 178 ($134k) Expenses 165 ($120k) Net assets 882 ($22k)2023 Revenue 264 ($198k) Expenses 246 ($179k) Net assets 1645 ($41k)2024 Revenue 290 ($218k) Expenses 278 ($202k) Net assets 2295 ($58k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (290)Expenses (278)Net assets (2295)Peer revenue range

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 $60k to $103k (+71%).

$3k
$17k
$28k
$43k
$60k
$103k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’19
$15k
’20
−$9k
’21
$14k
’22
$19k
’23
$16k
’24
1.9
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $94k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE 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

LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

69% 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 LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC.

32%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 67% · 2021 34% · 2022 42% · 2023 43% — 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

60% of LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

100% of LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · below the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Luma Projection Arts LLC · partnership

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE 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 LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC?
LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,389 to it, the largest being GREATER BINGHAMTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ($90,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $278,389 in grants to LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE INC?
GREATER BINGHAMTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUMA ARTS INITIATIVE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 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