New York · Nonprofit
MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio
MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $238,925 to it, the largest being THE PIERRE & TANA MATISSE FOUNDATION INC ($78,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Incshared funders
- Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundationportfolio match
- Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 6% · 2018 10% · 2021 6% · 2022 8% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio’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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $35k.
1 of 10 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.
From the IRS filings of MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 78% · 2019 58% · 2020 51% · 2021 58% · 2022 37% · 2023 29% — 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
44% of MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
98% of MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio'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. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Lehman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ponsold Motherwell Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fox Aarons Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Andre & Elizabeth Kertesz Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bradley Family Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- LGT Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Altman Foundationshared funderslocalNY · backs 78 organizations that share your funders · funds 265 organizations near you
- The Laurie M Tisch Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio: 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 MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio?
- MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $238,925 to it, the largest being THE PIERRE & TANA MATISSE FOUNDATION INC ($78,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $238,925 in grants to MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio?
- THE PIERRE & TANA MATISSE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $78,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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