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THE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET
THE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,450 to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($175,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- The Marc Haas Foundation Incshared funders
- Joyce Theater Foundation Incportfolio match
- Music & Dance Foundation Inc Co Abruzzo Accounting LLCportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $29k → $21k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET’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 TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 93% · 2019 56% · 2020 48% · 2021 29% · 2022 76% · 2023 48% — 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
18% of THE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
92% of THE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET'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. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Marc Haas Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Joyce Theater Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music & Dance Foundation Inc Co Abruzzo Accounting LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 81 organizations that share your funders · funds 252 organizations near you
- The International Association of Blacks in Danceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Dance Movementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harkness Foundation for Dance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 2wice Arts Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Danceusaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dance Service New York City Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like THE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET: 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 TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET?
- THE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,450 to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($175,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $356,450 in grants to THE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET?
- The Ford Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET 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 16funders 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