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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
5/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $264,212.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($230k) Expenses 100 ($231k) Net assets 100 ($127k)2018 Revenue 141 ($325k) Expenses 136 ($314k) Net assets 85 ($107k)2019 Revenue 146 ($336k) Expenses 100 ($231k) Net assets 124 ($157k)2020 Revenue 165 ($379k) Expenses 144 ($332k) Net assets 161 ($204k)2021 Revenue 185 ($425k) Expenses 173 ($399k) Net assets 181 ($230k)2022 Revenue 122 ($280k) Expenses 153 ($353k) Net assets 124 ($157k)2023 Revenue 135 ($309k) Expenses 137 ($316k) Net assets 119 ($151k)2024 Revenue 166 ($381k) Expenses 134 ($309k) Net assets 176 ($223k)2025 Revenue 145 ($333k) Expenses 149 ($343k) Net assets 168 ($213k)
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Revenue (145)Expenses (149)Net assets (168)Peer revenue range

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%).

$211k
$206k
$194k
$255k
$262k
$169k
$235k
$271k
$227k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’17
$10k
’18
$106k
’19
$47k
’20
$26k
’21
−$73k
’22
−$7k
’23
$72k
’24
−$10k
’25
1.8
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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Listed45878913129
Joined·+3+5+1+2+1+5+0+2
No longer listed·22210115
03Who funds it

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

34%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

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.

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

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
CT
SC

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

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New York out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD's revenue grew 45% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

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.

Federal$115k
grants $115kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 15%Fundraising 8%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

NY

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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