New York · Nonprofit
Nora Chipaumire Inc
Nora Chipaumire Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,000 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $671k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $355k
- Net assets
- $277k
What Nora Chipaumire Inc does
Mission
The specific and primary purpose of nora inc. is to engage in educational and charitable activities within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Code, including, but not limited to, (a) educating the public about Zimbabwean art and culture, stereotypes regarding Africa and the Black performing body, and the pernicious history and legacy of colonialism (the ?Educational Purposes?), and (b) providing charitable services to artists throughout the world, including in Harare, Zimbabwe, via a female-run cultural space.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The nora chipaumire nhereraHUB is a female-run cultural space in Zimbabwe offering creative people a safe and vibrant place to explore aesthetic processes of thinking accessed with and through the body. Finding intellectual space within individual and collective movement, the HUB supports creative practice as a form of communal ritual and critical inquiry. Founded in 2022, it provides access to residency space, a sound studio, a growing library archive, and land-based practices like gardening and traditional cooking. Each year, the HUB welcomes 3?6 resident researchers and guests. In 2024, these included Luis Alba Rincon, Haman Mpadire, Lara Barzon.
$117,023 spent33% of program spendingDAMBUDZO is a new anti-genre work by nora chipaumire exploring colonial legacies and the revolutionary potential of performance. Combining sound, painting, sculpture, and embodied performance, it takes audiences through an immersive experience of resistance and awakening. It premiered in Vienna in 2024 and will tour the U.S. and Europe through 2025. The work features a cast of eight performers and is staged in a shabini?a reimagined bar space of political and social gathering. DAMBUDZO is a commission of Wiener Festwochen and Festival d?Automne ? Paris, produced by nora chipaumire inc. and developed in residency with Callie?s in Berlin, Germany. It is funded by the Visual Arts Project Fund of the Goethe-Institut. nora chipaumire inc. is supported by the Mellon Foundation
$117,021 spent33% of program spendingInternational Artistic Engagements and Research Development: In Fall 2024, nora chipaumire engaged in multiple public dialogues and research-based activities aligned with the values of nora inc. She was a guest speaker at Performance Space New York during Bintou Demb?l??s Palabre/s en mode marron convening, and led workshops at ?cole des Sables in Dakar and with Aerowaves/Moving Borders in Dublin. She also began developing her next major work, acontinua ? an obituary, a manual for a life lived chasing LIFE, which is set to premiere at MITsp in Brazil in 2025. In December 2024, she was invited to speak about the nhereraHUB at Southnord, a webinar series spotlighting arts spaces across the African continent, offering a platform for exchange on local creative ecosystems
$117,021 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $351,065.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Nora Chipaumire Inc’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
Nora Chipaumire Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
100% of Nora Chipaumire Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Nora Chipaumire Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Nora Chipaumire Inc?
- Nora Chipaumire Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,000 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Nora Chipaumire Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $355,000 in grants to Nora Chipaumire Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Nora Chipaumire Inc?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Nora Chipaumire 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.
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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 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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