New York · Nonprofit
MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST
MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,250 to it, the largest being FRACTURED ATLAS INC ($116,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $527k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $121k
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Merce Cunningham Trust does
Programs
Classes and workshops: classes in cunningham technique are offered daily and are open to the public, allowing professional and other dancers to continue their training in this technique. The trust offers workshops to professional and aspiring dancers that allow them to experience the cunningham repertory without having to dance for a company. These workshops also comprise choreographic research opportunities for cunningham stagers and for the public to see and understand cunningham's process and work.
$72,342 spentLicensing: the trust licenses merce cunningham choreography to professional companies and educational institutions in order to ensure that his work continues to be seen by the public and learned by dancers as part of their training.
$62,240 spentResearch and creative: the trust supports research and creative activity related to the legacy of merce cunningham to further the public's knowledge and understanding of his work and its impact on culture and creation.
$23,968 spentEducational projects: the trust engages in educational prjects hosted by other institutions. These consist of workshops for the deapartment of education, an annual grant to s.u.n.y purchase to support financial aid for students learning cunningham technique, and other outreach efforts outside of new york city.
$33,981 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $8.4M (−23%).
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
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $116k.
From the IRS filings of MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST’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
MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
96% 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 MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST'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.
Against its field
MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST?
- MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,250 to it, the largest being FRACTURED ATLAS INC ($116,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $121,250 in grants to MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST?
- FRACTURED ATLAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $116,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST 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 3 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