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NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES
NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $469,843 to it, the largest being FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS ($316,793). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $470k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What New York Council for the Humanities does
Mission
Humanities new york strengthens civil society through conversations that bring people together to remember the past, imagine new possibilities, and build a shared future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Following the disruption to hny's federal funding in fy25, the second half of the fiscal year involved significant organizational and programmatic transition. During fy25, hny concluded its former grantmaking model, redesigned and restarted community conversations through libraries and strategic partnerships, redesigned reading & discussion from its former grant-based structure toward a directly facilitated model, and undertook planning and development for in common as their emerging humanities civic infrastructure.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Grant-making:grantmaking supports public humanities work carried out by organizations and communities across new york state. In fy25, humanities new york concluded its former grantmaking model. Grantmaking activity during the year included 18 final renewal awards through the post-incarceration humanities partnership (pihp) program and the administration of existing grant obligations from prior-year programs.
$777,767 spentof which $444,656 as grants48% of program spendingIn common: a humanities forum:in common: a humanities forum is humanities new york's emerging digital humanities infrastructure, designed to serve as the backbone of its statewide public humanities work and connect partners, facilitators, scholars, and communities across new york. In fy25, humanities new york conducted research, planning, and early development to define in common's digital infrastructure, shared resources, and statewide model.
$519,130 spent32% of program spendingCommunity conversations:community conversations brings small, facilitated dialogues to trusted partner sites across new york state, including libraries, museums, historical societies, and community centers. Each session centers on a short text, image, or artifact that invites participants to reflect on meaning, change, justice, and belonging. In fy25, humanities new york redesigned and restarted the program through libraries and strategic partnerships across new york state.
$204,161 spent13% of program spendingReading & discussion is humanities new york's sustained, book-based public humanities program, bringing participants together around shared texts for facilitated inquiry, reflection, and dialogue. In fy25, humanities new york redesigned the program, transitioning it from its former grant-based model toward a facilitated, multi-session program delivered through community partnerships.
$115,483 spent$6,952 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,616,541.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.2M to $3.9M (+23%).
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 94% · 2018 70% · 2019 91% · 2020 92% · 2021 97% · 2022 60% · 2023 95% · 2024 94% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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
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
Sara Ogger
Executive director
Board chair
Timothy Murray
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $117k → $25k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES’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 YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 72% · 2019 97% · 2020 66% · 2021 88% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $470k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.3M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$22.3M
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 NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES?
- NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $469,843 to it, the largest being FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS ($316,793). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $469,843 in grants to NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES?
- FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS is the largest funder on record, with $316,793 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES 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 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing