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THE DRAWING CENTER INC

THE DRAWING CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 117 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,939,787 to it, the largest being THE POSES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($715,450). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.5M
Revenue FY2025
117
Funders on record
$6.9M
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
66/117 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%

Against its field

THE DRAWING CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($8.6M)2018 Revenue 112 ($2.2M) Expenses 101 ($2.3M) Net assets 99 ($8.5M)2019 Revenue 115 ($2.2M) Expenses 105 ($2.4M) Net assets 97 ($8.4M)2020 Revenue 138 ($2.7M) Expenses 113 ($2.6M) Net assets 98 ($8.5M)2021 Revenue 174 ($3.4M) Expenses 123 ($2.8M) Net assets 106 ($9.1M)2022 Revenue 191 ($3.7M) Expenses 145 ($3.3M) Net assets 109 ($9.4M)2023 Revenue 159 ($3.1M) Expenses 154 ($3.5M) Net assets 104 ($9.0M)2024 Revenue 189 ($3.7M) Expenses 146 ($3.3M) Net assets 109 ($9.4M)2025 Revenue 230 ($4.5M) Expenses 158 ($3.6M) Net assets 119 ($10M)
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Revenue (230)Expenses (158)Net assets (119)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of THE DRAWING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$333k
17
$114k
18
$140k
19
$103k
20
$575k
21
$410k
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$413k
23
$350k
24
$879k
25
5.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $266k → $1.1M.

12 of 117 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)25% 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: $3k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Richman Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE DRAWING CENTER INC raised.

From the IRS filings of THE DRAWING CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 117 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

THE DRAWING CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

29% 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 THE DRAWING CENTER INC.

10%
largest funder
27%
top three
~22
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 33% · 2019 22% · 2020 13% · 2021 13% · 2022 15% · 2023 14%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

42% of THE DRAWING CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

66% of THE DRAWING CENTER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 117 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding THE DRAWING CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.

Federal$75k
grants $75kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$75k

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 THE DRAWING CENTER INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 18%Fundraising 12%

Governance

27
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE DRAWING 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE DRAWING CENTER INC?
THE DRAWING CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 117 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,939,787 to it, the largest being THE POSES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($715,450). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE DRAWING CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 117 organizations giving $6,939,787 in grants to THE DRAWING CENTER INC, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE DRAWING CENTER INC?
THE POSES FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $715,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE DRAWING 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.

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 117funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing