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THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC

THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,044 to it, the largest being MILTON AND SALLY AVERY ARTS FOUNDATION ($64,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$503k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$253k
Net assets
$636k
7/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What The Millay Colony for the Arts Inc does

Mission

It is the mission of the millay colony for the arts (the colony) to provide support including time and space to multidisciplinary artists to create works that would otherwise be realized; community programs including arts education in schools and public professional development workshops. Artists who come to the colony are chosen based on their talent by a panel of distinguished artists in the applicants' field.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide artists and writers with a place to develop their skills and artistic works

    $300,380 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $300,380.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($310k) Expenses 100 ($368k) Net assets 100 ($886k)2018 Revenue 69 ($214k) Expenses 90 ($332k) Net assets 87 ($770k)2019 Revenue 77 ($239k) Expenses 70 ($258k) Net assets 85 ($752k)2020 Revenue 69 ($215k) Expenses 60 ($220k) Net assets 90 ($793k)2021 Revenue 108 ($334k) Expenses 85 ($314k) Net assets 96 ($846k)2022 Revenue 74 ($230k) Expenses 88 ($323k) Net assets 77 ($678k)2023 Revenue 94 ($291k) Expenses 117 ($430k) Net assets 64 ($567k)2024 Revenue 162 ($503k) Expenses 123 ($451k) Net assets 72 ($636k)
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Revenue (162)Expenses (123)Net assets (72)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $776k to $928k (+20%).

$908k
$786k
$776k
$928k
$984k
$838k
$710k
$811k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 33% · 2018 13% · 2019 15% · 2020 35% · 2021 14% · 2022 30% · 2023 14% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$58k
’17
−$119k
’18
−$19k
’19
−$5k
’20
$20k
’21
−$93k
’22
−$139k
’23
$52k
’24
0.7
months of
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.

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Listed10965781010
Joined·+0+0+1+2+1+2+0
No longer listed·1320000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $22k → $16k.

6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS 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 MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

35% 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 MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC.

25%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 41% · 2019 92% · 2020 51% · 2021 31% · 2022 74% · 2023 62% — 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

14% of THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

84% of THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
CA
DC

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

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.

Federal$60k
grants $60kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$60k

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 MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 25%Fundraising 9%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC?
THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,044 to it, the largest being MILTON AND SALLY AVERY ARTS FOUNDATION ($64,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $253,044 in grants to THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS INC?
MILTON AND SALLY AVERY ARTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $64,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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