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SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING
SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,591,128 to it, the largest being UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($620,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $573k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $-1142461
What Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling does
Mission
Provide the neighborhood with space where families grow and learn about sugar hill, and the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
See schedule ooffering a robust program of art exhibitions, storytelling, artist residencies and intensive hands-on art education programs. The sugar hill children's museum of art & storytelling provides opportunities for young children to discover, engage with and appreciate important works of art, and strengthen their cognitive and creative development. The museum's intergenerational programs target the developmental needs of children ages 3-8 located in the historic district of sugar hill, home of the harlem renaissance. Museum visitors have the opportunity to experience a wide range of artistic processes, techniques and materials through programs inspired by the world-renowned reggio emilia school in tuscany, italy. Rooted in community, self-guided discovery and creative expression, this approach to art education nurtures and honors the unique contributions of children and is fully aligned with the goals and values of both the museum and broadway housing communities.
$1,211,338 spent$28,545 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,211,338.
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 $907k to $427k (−53%).
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 3% · 2018 52% · 2019 18% · 2020 9% · 2021 55% · 2022 15% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Charlene Melville
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $80k → $213k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $3.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Broadway Housing Communities Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING raised.
From the IRS filings of SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING’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
SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 92% · 2019 52% · 2020 40% · 2021 34% · 2022 33% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“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
13% of SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
74% of SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING'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. $214k 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
SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $230k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$230k
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 SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- Broadway Housing Communities Inc · exempt
- Broadway Housing Development Fund Co · exempt
- Broadway Rio Housing Development Fund Co · exempt
- Broadway Sugar Hill Housing Dev Fund Co · exempt
- Sugar Hill New Market Tax Credit Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING?
- SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,591,128 to it, the largest being UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($620,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,591,128 in grants to SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING?
- UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $620,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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