New York · Nonprofit
THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC
THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,714,446 to it, the largest being ELAINE GRAHAM WEITZEN FOUNDATION FOR FINE ARTS ($1,445,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What The Sculpture Center Inc does
Mission
See schedule osculpturecenter leads the conversation on contemporary art by supporting artistic innovation and independent thought highlighting sculpture's specific potential to change the way we engage with the world. Positioning artists' work in larger cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts, sculpturecenter discerns and interprets emerging ideas. Founded by artists in 1928, sculpturecenter provides an international forum that connects artists and audiences by presenting exhibitions, commissioning new work, and generating scholarship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
As a non-collecting museum, sculpturecenter's annual exhibition program includes 3-6 solo and group exhibitions (most consisting entirely of newly commissioned works) and the in practice open call program, which features newly commissioned solo exhibitions by up to 7 emerging artists. To facilitate deep public engagement and encourage dialogue between visitors, artists, and their work, sculpturecenter hosts free events and programs that complement our exhibitions, such as lectures, performances, and panel discussions, with leaders in the field of contemporary art and other related fields.in fiscal year 2025, sculpturecenter presented 12 critically acclaimed exhibitions and projects, showcasing as many artists and artist teams, plus many more artistic collaborators. These included alexa west (continued from fiscal year 2024); lvaro urbano: tableau vivant; asma: ideal space for music; luana vitra: amulets; and spasial program by khajistan. The in practice open call program produced solo exhibitions by phoebe collings-james (continued from fiscal year 2024), bastien gachet, tony chrenka, anita esfandiari, zishi han and wei yang, sam cottington and alejandro villabona, and kevin…
$1,820,908 spent$29,789 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,820,908.
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 $6.1M to $7.2M (+19%).
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 22% · 2019 4% · 2020 8% · 2021 4% · 2022 27% · 2023 15% · 2024 4% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Carol Bove
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 17 funders, grant income rose $109k → $912k.
12 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 SCULPTURE CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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 SCULPTURE CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
41% 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 SCULPTURE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 39% · 2019 37% · 2020 32% · 2021 18% · 2022 18% · 2023 28% — 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
31% of THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
97% of THE SCULPTURE CENTER 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. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 SCULPTURE CENTER INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
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 SCULPTURE CENTER 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SCULPTURE 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC?
- THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,714,446 to it, the largest being ELAINE GRAHAM WEITZEN FOUNDATION FOR FINE ARTS ($1,445,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $6,714,446 in grants to THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC?
- ELAINE GRAHAM WEITZEN FOUNDATION FOR FINE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $1,445,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SCULPTURE 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.
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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 60 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