New York · Nonprofit
THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC
THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,988,133 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($1,500,300). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance Inc does
Mission
Dedicated to preserving martha graham's legacy and performing her work with excellence, creating and presenting new dance works, supporting the non-profit dance field through rehearsal and production support, encouraging young artists and choreographers, and maintaining the graham archive. These activities include operation of school, production of digital and live performances, touring, and resource development for martha graham.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The martha graham center of contemporary dance provides the martha graham school, martha graham dance company, and martha graham resources with fundraising and marketing support and legal, financial and audit services. The martha graham dance company keeps vital and builds upon martha graham's transcendent dance language by performing her work, commissioning new works, reviving and reconstructing the graham works, developing dancers in graham artistry and bringing new audiences throughout the global community to the graham art form. Martha graham resources restores and preserves the graham archives, documents ongoing artistic work and provides access to the resources of the center. New partnerships are developed with educational program services, and art institutions. The collections held by the organization are used in the presentation and performance of martha graham's works. The martha graham center supports aligned arts organizations with rehearsal, performance, and exhibition assistance.
$3,206,196 spent$1,893,417 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,206,196.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $2.3M (+115%).
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 39% · 2018 41% · 2019 38% · 2020 32% · 2021 44% · 2023 19% · 2024 6% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Larue Allen
Executive director
Board chair
Javier Morgado
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $75k → $239k.
9 of 29 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.
From the IRS filings of THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC’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
THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 69% · 2019 79% · 2020 53% · 2021 46% · 2022 72% · 2023 25% — 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
54% of THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
91% of THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE 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. $756k 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
THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $805k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$786k
- Department of State$19k
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 MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC?
- THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,988,133 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($1,500,300). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,988,133 in grants to THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE 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 29 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