Virginia · Nonprofit
NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE
NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $662,951 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($381,038). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $364k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $663k
- Net assets
- $250k
What New City Arts Initiative does
Mission
We envision the charlottesville area as a place where a thriving group of local artists unsettles and transforms our community to work toward a more just, beautiful future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Vocation: we are committed to helping make charlottesville a place where artists can live and work. In response to artists' needs, we offer free studio space, a low-commission gallery, artist grants, and networking opportunities. From july 1, 2024 through june 30, 2025, new city arts supported 150 charlottesville-area artists and 7,555 total arts participants who engaged with this work. During this timeframe, $90,061 was distributed to charlottesville-area artists through commissions, honorariums, stipends, and sales, alongside artwork acquisitions or commissions by local facilities who partnered with new city arts to build their permanent collection, create rotating exhibitions, or launched open calls to commission artists for new works.new city arts' programs are primarily project-based and support emerging artists in the charlottesville area (charlottesville, albemarle, greene, nelson, louisa, fluvanna, orange, buckingham) who are often creating installations, durational works, or experimental projects. Annually, more than 50% of the artists new city arts serves are artists of color and include aging artists, teenage artists, differently abled artists, and queer artists. We…
$204,945 spent$13,025 earned by the program69% of program spendingCommunity: new city arts works together with community members and partner organizations to spark connection and bolster people-centered, creative solutions to economic and social challenges. We maintain a flexible, responsive approach to programming and community engagement. 100% of community arts programs, events, and open calls are free or low-cost.new city arts celebrated its 11th year of charlottesville soup, a community-decided and community-building grant-making process that funds artists directly through a community meal. This 100-person, low-cost dinner provides residents with the power to fund local artists' projects by pooling donations and ticket sales to create a grant awarded to an artist by vote. In february, new city arts crossed the $50,000 threshold in project funding awarded to individual artists since charlottesville soup's founding in 2013.
$41,704 spent$10,825 earned by the program14% of program spendingEducation: by hosting educational opportunities - such as artist talks, workshops, and interviews where local artists share about their practice, experience, and craft - we foster opportunities for community building and artistic professional development. From july 1, 2024-june 30, 2025, new city arts hosted 59 events like skillsharing workshops, craft nights, artist talks, artwork exchanges, artist dinners, co-working days, gallery lunches, mending circles, and more.
$50,598 spent$1,820 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $297,247.
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 2020 to 2021, from $169k to $123k (−27%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 8% · 2022 18% · 2023 5% · 2024 8% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE’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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Maureen Brondyke
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $18k → $144k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE’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
NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 63% · 2022 57% · 2023 74% — 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
43% of NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
64% of NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE'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 $241k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $422k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE: 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 NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE?
- NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $662,951 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($381,038). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $662,951 in grants to NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE?
- CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $381,038 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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