New York · Nonprofit
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC (New York) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,011,671 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,123,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Socrates Sculpture Park Inc does
Mission
Socrates is the only site in the new york metropolitan area specifically dedicated to providing artists with opportunities to create and exhibit large-scale sculpture and multi-media installations in a unique outdoor environment that invites interaction between artists, artworks and the public. The park's existence is based on the belief that reclamation, revitalization and creative expression are essential to the survival, humanity and improvement of our urban environment.open free of charge, every day of the year, socrates is an exemplary model of urban renewal that serves as an internationally acclaimed cultural venue, as well as a source of local community pride. In addition to visual arts programming, socrates presents free art making workshops for children; fitness classes; and numerous multicultural music, dance, and theatrical presentations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Exhibitionssocrates sculpture park is committed to serving artists - from early-career to international renown - by providing an open platform for public art and encouraging unfettered ambition in scale and subject matter. Most artworks exhibited at socrates are built on-site in the outdoor artist studio space. This gives park visitors the unique opportunity to witness the often labor-intensive art-making process. The park also remains open to the public during exhibition installation and de-installation. The socrates annual 2024our programming expanded with a larger and more ambitious version of our longstanding artist fellowship and exhibition program, the socrates annual, which guided two cohorts of early career artists (one in the spring and one in the summer/fall) to complete installations first with a specific focus on horticultural intervention, and later with a cohort creating largescale sculptural works. With this new approach, each cohort received more individualized attention from our curator and artists were able to work within a season that most matched their projects (horticulture projects in the spring during planting season, and sculpture in the summer and fall).…
$1,966,707 spentof which $66,753 as grants$12,841 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,966,707.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.8M to $4.2M (+47%).
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 12% · 2019 13% · 2020 31% · 2021 13% · 2022 12% · 2023 27% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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 18 funders to 30 funders, grant income fell $512k → $412k.
8 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
56% 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 SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 46% · 2019 34% · 2020 14% · 2021 24% · 2022 26% · 2023 30% — 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
40% of SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
83% of SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $5.0M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $283k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$283k
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 SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC?
- SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC (New York) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,011,671 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,123,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $5,011,671 in grants to SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,123,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK 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.
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 78 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