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NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL
NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,754,233 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,216,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What New York Studio School does
Mission
The New York Studio School is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Art education: dedicated to conveying a deeper understanding of the language of art and to providing artists with the tools to follow any artistic path they choose, the school offers a master of fine arts program, a certificate program, evening & weekend classes, and its signature marathons. These programs typically require intensive work in the studio and feature small, close-knit cohorts, extensive contact and critiques with artist-faculty, exhibition opportunities, and engagement with contemporary art discourses and the historical sweep of millenia of creative mark-making. The school typically enrolls approximately 60 f/t students and 300+ p/t students and offers around 80-90 courses each year.
$2,022,107 spentof which $511,805 as grants$1,718,507 earned by the program67% of program spendingStudent services: nyss takes care to provide crucial auxiliary programming and support services to its students to foster their intellectual, creative, and professional development. The library connects students, faculty, and other researchers to its resources and collections as well as to those of other nyc collections. The office of student services organizes professional career development events, field trips, and other extracurricular activities, in addition to community building and networking. Nyss also runs a residency in dumbo designed to support select recent graduate awardees with their transition to a postgraduate working practice.
$580,049 spentof which $40,000 as grants$10,946 earned by the program19% of program spendingPublic programming: for nearly 60 years nyss has organized public programming that is free and open to all. The exhibition programs and twice-weekly evening lecture series bring the student body and a wider art community from nyc and beyond into dialogue with both emerging and acclaimed artists, curators, historians, critics, and others. The school organizes approx eight exhibitions in its main gallery each year, provides additional opportunities in the student gallery for student-curated exhibitions, and hosts a series of other events creating opportunities for engagement with a wider art world.
$415,611 spent$9,385 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,017,767.
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.
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 $5.8M to $6.8M (+17%).
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 3% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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 15 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $247k → $735k.
11 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 STUDIO SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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 STUDIO SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 STUDIO SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 45% · 2019 28% · 2020 31% · 2021 45% · 2022 34% · 2023 34% — 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.
How long its funders stay
61% of NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
58% of NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL'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 $2.8M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M 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.
Government funding NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $515k on record.
- Department of the Interior$400k
- National Endowment for the Arts$115k
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 STUDIO SCHOOL
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: 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 STUDIO SCHOOL?
- NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,754,233 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,216,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $6,754,233 in grants to NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,216,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 70 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