New York · Nonprofit
The Folkus Project Incorporated
The Folkus Project Incorporated (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,043 to it, the largest being CNY Arts Inc ($23,043). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $56k
What The Folkus Project Incorporated does
Mission
To foster and promote traditional, contemporary, and multicultural folk music and related performing arts in Syracuse and Central NY.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Host approximately 16 shows per year, open to the public, featuring folk artists.
$52,619 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,619.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $19k to $36k (+93%).
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.
27% of The Folkus Project Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 The Folkus Project Incorporated’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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Folkus Project Incorporated'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
The Folkus Project Incorporated has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like The Folkus Project Incorporated
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Folkus Project Incorporated?
- The Folkus Project Incorporated (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,043 to it, the largest being CNY Arts Inc ($23,043). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Folkus Project Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $23,043 in grants to The Folkus Project Incorporated, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Folkus Project Incorporated?
- CNY Arts Inc is the largest funder on record, with $23,043 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Folkus Project Incorporated 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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