New York · Nonprofit
MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS INC
MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,269 to it, the largest being ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ($71,769). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS INC 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.
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inclocalportfolio match
- The Lucille Lortel Foundation Incshared funders
- Frank and Lydia Bergen 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 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS 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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $45k.
From the IRS filings of MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS 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
MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 78% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS 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. 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 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 256 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Lucille Lortel Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flushing Council on Culture and the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Liebergesell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Huntington Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brooklyn Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Artswestchester Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baisley Powell Elebash Fund Xxxxx5009portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frederick Loewe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edwin Caplin Foundation 104786-000portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $58k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$58k
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 MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS 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 MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS INC?
- MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,269 to it, the largest being ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ($71,769). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $89,269 in grants to MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS INC?
- ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $71,769 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENCIUS SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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