New Jersey · Nonprofit
NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL
NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL (New Jersey) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,911,111 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($3,220,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $429k
What Newark Arts Council does
Mission
Newark arts' mission is to power the arts to transform the lives of those who live in, work in, and visit newark.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
For more than 10 years, newark arts has been the fiscal sponsor/conduit for dozens of arts initiatives - often incubating them until they can become standalone 501(c)(3) organizations. Na acts as a fiscal sponsor/conduit for: arts ed newark, four corners public art, lincoln park alliance, the creative catalyst fund (ccf), and the harriet tubman monument.
$809,875 spentof which $89,295 as grants$156,229 earned by the program54% of program spendingArts ed newark, created under the umbrella of newark arts, is a strategic alliance of 90+ education stakeholders, including public, charter, and private schools; artists; arts and cultural organizations; youth and community development entities; businesses; funders; and state and local government agencies. Aen collaborates to ensure that all children in grades pre-k through 12 have equitable access to high quality, sequential arts education oppirtunities, both in and out of school.
$439,770 spentof which $94,390 as grants$4,300 earned by the program29% of program spendingNewark's largest festival of visual arts and other art forms. In 2022, newark arts festival: artful healing opening night drew more than 1,000 visitors at the newark museum of art (nmoa). For the first time ever, the museum hosted the festival's main group exhibition in one of its galleries. In 2021, the newark arts festival: creative resilience returned to an in-person, 2-month long event that attracted nearly 10,000 attendees throughout the city. Centered in an 18,000 square-foot hahne & co. Building retail space, the festival created a post-covid downtown destination and garnered broadcast and national print coverage for its dionne warwick: queen of twitter feature exhibit and gallery of 158 works by local artists.
$253,432 spent$20,593 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: $1,503,077.
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 2019 to 2020, from $648k to $1.5M (+125%).
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 10% · 2018 13% · 2019 14% · 2020 46% · 2021 39% · 2023 49% · 2024 27% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Lauren Craig
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $217k → $755k.
4 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 75% · 2019 57% · 2020 44% · 2021 26% · 2022 44% · 2023 45% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
82% of NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $671k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record — $659k federal, $1.3M state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$659k
- GRANT IN AID$1.1M
- FEDERAL$99k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$33k
- TRUST FUND$25k
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 NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL
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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL: 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 NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL?
- NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL (New Jersey) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,911,111 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($3,220,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $6,911,111 in grants to NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL?
- THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 32 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