New Jersey · Nonprofit
NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (New Jersey) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,449,906 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($505,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $949k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $534k
What Newark School of the Arts does
Mission
Newark School of the Arts mission is to change the lives of youth through access to quality education in the visual and performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The school has a strong commitment to the community. Through partnerships with the city of newark, newark public school's district, charter and other private schools. Nsa offers educational programs, residencies and performances during and after school time. The school presents up to 40 student, faculty and guest artist performances and visual arts exhibitions each year, free and open to the public. It is unique in the newark area for providing multidisciplinary arts training on a long-term basis. The school established digital media lab focused on teaching 21st century technology in music production, composition and graphic arts and continues to develop new programs.
$798,313 spentof which $983 as grants$490,758 earned by the program100% of program spendingIn the late nineties, nsa developed a professional music division that grew out of the need to accommodate advanced students who wish to pursue a career in the arts. Students in the professional division are required to audition. The professional division has some of the most advanced students from new jersey. Recent students have gone on to study at manhattan school of music, mannes school, new england conservatory and juilliard. Students in the program have performed as prelude artists at njpac for pianist lang lang, conductor charles dutoit and opera singer renee fleming. They deepen their knowledge through opportunities to meet the artists in person.
Significant numbers of nsa alumni have gone on to careers in the arts. They include world-renowned tap dancer savion glover; latin singing sensation frankie negron, vocalist; kesha knight pulliam- rudy on the cosby show; counter-tenor derrick lee ragin (metropolitan opera/english national opera); pianist hsing-ay hsu, artistic administrator of the pendulum new music series at the university of colorado in boulder; kimberlyn monford, associate professor of music at trinity university; maurice chestnut, tap dancer; tyshawn sorey, macathur fellow, composer and musician.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $798,313.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $968k (−25%).
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 11% · 2018 11% · 2019 15% · 2020 16% · 2021 42% · 2022 28% · 2023 21% · 2024 25% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $122k → $397k.
5 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 SCHOOL OF THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 SCHOOL OF THE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 65% · 2019 34% · 2020 20% · 2021 20% · 2022 27% · 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
47% of NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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 SCHOOL OF THE ARTS'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. $173k 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
NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record — $10k federal, $1.6M state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- GRANT IN AID$1.4M
- FEDERAL$127k
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 SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: 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 SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
- NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (New Jersey) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,449,906 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($505,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,449,906 in grants to NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
- THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $505,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 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.
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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 35 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