New York · Nonprofit
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,619,065 to it, the largest being ARISON ARTS FOUNDATION ($3,522,200). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 122
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $20M
What New York Live Arts Inc does
Mission
New york live arts strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation's dance and movement-based artists through new approaches of producing, presenting, and educating in our 20,000 square foot home, which includes a 184-seat theater, two 1,200 square foot studios, and communal space in the lobby and cafe. Live arts serves as home base for the bill t. Jones/arnie zane dance company, provides an extensive range of participatory programs for adults and young people, and supports the continuing professional development of artists. With our audience, we seek to become a place for dance that is vital to the fabric of social and cultural life in new york, america, and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
New york live arts had a critically acclaimed 2024-25 season including six 2024 bessie award nominations among three commissioned artists and two 2025 bessie award nominations. Live arts produced thirteen fully produced presentations, including rca, live feed, and live artery festival that brought in an audience of nearly 6,912 to live arts. The bill t. Jones/arnie zane dance company toured nationally, bringing its work to approximately 6,702 audience members. During the company's 43rd year, they had 8 performances in new york city. Remounting the iconic work still/here at brooklyn academy of music (bam), marking its 30th anniversary, as well as premiering a new work for the home season at new york live arts. Bill t. Jones was commissioned to create a solo for the whitney art museum's edges of ailey exhibit, where he had 2 sold-out shows for his world premier of memory piece: mr. Ailey, alvin. The un-ailey? We also remounted the work for the company's home season in may 2025.new york live arts continued to support the development of the new work of its seventh resident commissioned artist, miguel guiterrez, and his work, super nothing, which premiered in january 2025. Live arts…
$7,170,743 spentof which $2,728,225 as grants$1,498,856 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,170,743.
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 2019 to 2020, from $19M to $15M (−24%).
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 6% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 11% · 2022 16% · 2023 4% · 2024 13% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Kimberly Cullen
Exec. Dir./CEO
Board chair
Alan Marks
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.0M.
15 of 122 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 LIVE ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 122 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
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
26% 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 LIVE ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 37% · 2019 28% · 2020 19% · 2021 15% · 2022 20% · 2023 25% — 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 NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
55% of NEW YORK LIVE 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. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 YORK LIVE ARTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $580k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$580k
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 LIVE ARTS INC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 YORK LIVE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC?
- NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,619,065 to it, the largest being ARISON ARTS FOUNDATION ($3,522,200). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 122 organizations giving $21,619,065 in grants to NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC?
- ARISON ARTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,522,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK LIVE 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 122 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