New York · Nonprofit
PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC
PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,843,087 to it, the largest being ARISON ARTS FOUNDATION ($4,857,118). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Ps 1 Contemporary Art Center Inc does
Mission
Moma ps1 is a contemporary art institute in long island city, new york. An exhibition space rather than a collecting institution, moma ps1 devotes its energy and resources to displaying the most experimental art in the world across all artistic disciplines. A catalyst and an advocate for new ideas, discourses, and trends in contemporary art, moma ps1 actively pursues emerging artists, new genres, and adventurous new work by recognized artists in an effort to support innovation in contemporary art. Moma ps1 achieves this mission by presenting its diverse program to a broad audience in a unique environment in which visitors can discover and explore the work of contemporary artists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitionsmoma ps1 presents the work of emerging artists, established artists working in new genres, and overall, presenting to the public works of contemporary art that are engaging, challenging, and ground-breaking artwork in a unique, accessible venue.
$9,126,585 spent91% of program spendingLive programssince its founding in 1976, moma ps1 has offered audiences one of the most extensive programs of live performance in the world. Moma ps1's pioneering outdoor music series warm up is one of the longest running music programs housed within a museum. As an integral part of moma ps1's curatorial program for more than 25 years, warm up seeks to elevate innovative voices: emerging and established, local and global, and across genres.
$758,760 spent$734,963 earned by the program8% of program spendingEvents & retailmoma ps1 houses a cafe and bookstore, each managed by a 3rd party vendor.
$93,113 spent$60,874 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,978,458.
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 $3.5M to $6.3M (+82%).
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 9% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 7% · 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 9% · 2024 9% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% 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.
Board chair
Robert Soros
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $110k → $3.5M.
11 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $19M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Museum of Modern Art). These are real filings, and they are not money PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 65%; 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 45% · 2018 68% · 2019 89% · 2020 56% · 2021 36% · 2022 54% · 2023 37% — 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
46% of PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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
PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER 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
Organizations like PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Museum of Modern Art · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER 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 PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC?
- PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,843,087 to it, the largest being ARISON ARTS FOUNDATION ($4,857,118). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $12,843,087 in grants to PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC?
- ARISON ARTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,857,118 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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