New York · Nonprofit
MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,517,036 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,404,065). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Municipal Art Society of New York does
Mission
The Municipal Art Society of New York (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. Mas envisions a future in which all new yorkers share in the richness of city life - where growth is balanced, character endures, and a resilient future is secured. In over 130 years of history, our advocacy efforts have led to the creation of the new york city planning commission, public design commission, landmarks preservation commission, and the tribute in light; the preservation of grand central terminal, the lights of times square, and the garment district; the conservation of more than 50 works of public art; and the founding of civic arts organizations such as the public art fund, the new york landmarks conservancy, p.s. 1, the historic districts council, the park avenue armory conservancy, and the waterfront alliance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mas promotes diverse neighborhoods, efficient and reliable infrastructure, affordable housing, and inviting open space through comprehensive community-based urban planning. In fy 2025, mas continued to support the passage of city of yes (passed december, 2025) which represents the most substantial zoning change new york city has seen since the 1960s. Further, we worked with the charter revision commission to shape proposals for land-use and planning amendments while also engaging as a key stakeholder in the development of infrastructure projects ranging from penn station to the metropolitan museum of art's tang wing expansion. Additionally, we worked with community boards to understand large land-use actions happening in their neighborhoods, such as the long island city rezoning and engaged with both community and government stakeholders on the midtown south mixed use rezoning. As part of our livable neighborhoods program, which mas has run since 2007, we welcomed over 60 program participants to a final workshop focused on how to engage in the public process for zoning and land-use projects and reviews happening in their neighborhoods.
$1,243,350 spentof which $52,800 as grants52% of program spendingMas works on the ground across all five boroughs mobilizing new yorkers on issues that affect our city while also working with city government to shape the policy and processes that impact our daily lives. In 2025 we were a lead advocate in the passing of the city of yes, the city's most comprehensive zoning overhaul since the 1960s. We worked with the charter revision commission to shape proposals for land-use and planning amendments while also engaging as a key stakeholder in the development of infrastructure projects ranging from penn station to the metropolitan museum of art's tang wing expansion. Programmatically, we furthered our enduring culture initiative aimed at expanding new york's approach to preservation by celebrating more of the places, cultural activities, and histories that make our neighborhoods unique. As part of the initiative, we sub-granted with seven community partners to support their diverse cultural heritage work across the city, held five borough-based spotlights to celebrate local histories of people in place, and connected with over 50 interviews professionals in the field to discuss the intersection of preservation and cultural heritage with housing…
$930,949 spentof which $821 as grants$81,541 earned by the program39% of program spendingMas advocates for equity and inclusion in historic preservation practices and policies. In fy 25, mas continued work on our mellon-funded enduring culture initiative, partnering with our seven sub-grantee community partners to facilitate cultural programming across the city. Further, our two grant-funded fellows continued desk research as well as robust interviewing of leaders across the public and private sector to inform the development of a policy brief and advocacy campaign. As new york faces a critical housing shortage, affordability pressures, and increasing climate impacts, mas is exploring the untapped potential of existing buildings and cultural heritage to inform land use decisions, capital investment, and long-term stewardship with the goal of redefining the role of preservation in a changing city and further understanding the policy frameworks needed to shape adaptive reuse and reinvestment in our urban fabric. Additionally, mas testified or made policy recommendations on a number of important historic preservation issues and continued work conserving public art in all five boroughs through our adopt-a-monument program.
$226,948 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,401,247.
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 $12M to $9.1M (−25%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 15% · 2022 31% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $199k → $1.0M.
10 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 21% · 2019 97% · 2020 62% · 2021 59% · 2022 52% · 2023 42% — 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
40% of MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
76% of MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.3M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $9.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
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 MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
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.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK?
- MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,517,036 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,404,065). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $9,517,036 in grants to MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,404,065 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 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 61 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