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UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC

UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $326,773 to it, the largest being CHOPIVSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($145,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$327k
Net assets
$6.4M
11/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Ukrainian Institute of America Inc does

Mission

To help and promote cultural, social and educational events and activities showcasing ukrainian art, culture and history to the general public.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Music at the institute:in its 37th season, music at the institute (mati) presents world-class musicians from ukraine, europe and the us, performing in the unique setting of the concert hall in the ukrainian institute of america's historic, landmark building. Currently under the leadership of artistic director, dr. Solomiya ivakhiv, the mati series offers audiences a curated selection of familiar chamber music repertoire alongside both lesser-known and celebrated works by ukrainian composers. Over its history, mati has commissioned compositions by emerging and recognized ukrainian composers, in celebration or commemoration of milestones in ukrainian and the institute's history.1. A tribute to virko baley | an 85th birthday celebration [sept 15, 2024].2. A musical celebration of lithuanian-ukrainian unity [october 22, 2024].3. Rediscovering thomas "foma" de hartmann: part 2 [jan 29, 2025].4. Elegies and melodies [feb 9, 2025].5. Legacies / remembering ted dzus jr. [may 3, 2025].

    $47,845 spent$22,855 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  2. Art at the institute:from july 2024 - june 2025, art at the institute presented 5 exhibitions and 3 artist talks by contemporary ukrainian, ukrainian-american and lithuanian artists.1. Saints by sasha maslov [jan 24, 2025].2. Ukraine: every day [june 6, 2025].3. Faina: the shape of vitality & drevo (design exhibition) [june 25, 2025].4. Panel discussion and opening reception of faina: the shape of vitality & drevo [june 26, 2025].

    $12,280 spent$18,040 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  3. Film at the institute: 5 screenings:1. Intercepted (at film forum) [oct 4, 2024].2. Veselka: the rainbow on the corner at the center of the world [nov 15, 2024].3. La palisiada [nov 25, 2024].4. Porcelain war [feb 5, 2025].5. People of steel with serhiy fomenko [may 7, 2025].6. Scenographies of chaos: kira muratova's critical filmmaking [may 16, 2025].

    $4,747 spent$4,518 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  4. 33 other programs and events often organized in collaboration with ourpartners:1. 32nd year of ukraine's renewed independence2. Russian-ukrainian memory wars in western academia and media3. Ukrainian culture in a time of war: identity, heritage, and resilience with us dep of state4. Uia gala5. An evening with janine di giovanni and peter pomerantsev6. A roundtable discussion: lubomyr luciuk & "enemy archives"7. Women in conflict: supporting activist leaders in afghanistan, iran and ukraine8. European literature night9. Pyvo night10. Ukrainian cultural festival - poetry event11. Cultural genocide in ukraine12. A ukrainian polish evening / screening of erase the nation13. Holiday boutique14. An evening with india hicks15. Yalynka16. Kidnapped childhood: russia's war on ukraine's children17. Ukrainestands open house feb 24, 202418. Bucha film media screening19. An evening with general ben hodges20. Face to face21. Ukrainian women's delegation event22. Family, friends and flowers | paintings by joseph fioretti23. Pysanka workshop with sofika24. Pysanka workshop with laryssa czebiniak25. Teura: an intimate portrait of sofia yablonska26. Ukrainian women in war time | an evening with…

    $895,705 spentof which $5,700 as grants$109,797 earned by the program
    93% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $960,577.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($984k) Expenses 100 ($854k) Net assets 100 ($4.7M)2019 Revenue 78 ($769k) Expenses 90 ($766k) Net assets 100 ($4.7M)2020 Revenue 87 ($860k) Expenses 93 ($795k) Net assets 103 ($4.9M)2021 Revenue 79 ($776k) Expenses 77 ($657k) Net assets 120 ($5.7M)2022 Revenue 161 ($1.6M) Expenses 105 ($897k) Net assets 118 ($5.6M)2023 Revenue 120 ($1.2M) Expenses 130 ($1.1M) Net assets 125 ($5.9M)2024 Revenue 130 ($1.3M) Expenses 144 ($1.2M) Net assets 134 ($6.3M)2025 Revenue 120 ($1.2M) Expenses 155 ($1.3M) Net assets 135 ($6.4M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (155)Net assets (135)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 2020 to 2021, from $5.1M to $5.7M (+13%).

$5.0M
$5.0M
$5.1M
$5.7M
$5.7M
$6.0M
$6.4M
$6.5M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

27% of UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$130k
’18
$3k
’19
$65k
’20
$119k
’21
$683k
’22
$75k
’23
$56k
’24
−$137k
’25
18
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.

Chief executive

Lydia Zaininger

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1515151516161616
Joined·+3+2+1+4+4+0+4
No longer listed·3213404
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $15k → $48k.

5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA 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

UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31% 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 UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC.

45%
largest funder
66%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 42% · 2019 92% · 2020 79% · 2021 26% · 2022 37% · 2023 54% — 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

40% of UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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

UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.

NY
MA
VA
DE
DC
FL

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

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’20
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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k 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

Against its field

UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve17.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 24%Fundraising 4%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

33%

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 UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC?
UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $326,773 to it, the largest being CHOPIVSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($145,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $326,773 in grants to UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC?
CHOPIVSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $145,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 18 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