New York · Nonprofit
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,806 to it, the largest being THE ILSABABY FOUNDATION ($155,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $333k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $450k
- Net assets
- $213k
What Ugly Duckling Presse Ltd does
Mission
To produce art and publish books of emerging, international and forgotten artist and writers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ugly Duckling Presse published 19 full-length books and chapbooks and two issues of our periodical in this fiscal year; programmed or participated in over 50 cultural events- readings, seminars, and book fairs- all free to the public and in support of Ugly Duckling Presse authors;trained four early-career artists, writers, and/or publishing professionals in small press publishing through the Ugly Duckling Presse Apprenticeship.
$264,212 spent$121,010 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $264,212.
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 2021 to 2022, from $262k to $169k (−36%).
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: 2022 30% · 2023 39% · 2024 31% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $56k → $45k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD’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
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 72%; 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 90% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 67% · 2022 60% · 2023 56% — 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
17% of UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD's revenue grew 45% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$115k
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 UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD: 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 UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD?
- UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,806 to it, the largest being THE ILSABABY FOUNDATION ($155,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $449,806 in grants to UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD?
- THE ILSABABY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD 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 14 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