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Yara Arts Group
Yara Arts Group (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,886 to it, the largest being THE MAP FUND INC ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $215k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $113k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Yara Arts Group does
Mission
Create original theatre pieces at La MaMa Theatre, Howl, Bohemian National Hall, East Village Basement, in New York City and the Jersey City Theater Center, as well as puppet shows, poetry art & music events,and film screenings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Yara Artrs Groups Theatre pieces include: The Magic of Light performed at La MaMa Theatre in New York, and at Northwestern University Chicagos Wirtz Center. The related theatre piece Three Brothers performed at the Gallery at South Hill in Ithaca, NY. Yaras show Slap about David Burliuk performed at the East Village Basement in New York. In the fall Yara also started to develop Alexandra Exter: Queen of the Avant-Garde theatre piece at La MaMa in New York.
$97,172 spentof which $69,513 as grants$29,285 earned by the program56% of program spendingYaras puppet theatre pieces created by Tom Lee include: The Great Zodiac Animal Race at La MaMa in New York, Mirror Pool at Eight Blackbird in Chicago, Tomte at Eight Blackbird in Chicago, Terraria as part of the Creatures Festival at La MaMa in New York and Watoku Uenos shadow puppet piece Silent Green at La MaMa in New York.
$42,570 spentof which $19,846 as grants$27,636 earned by the program25% of program spendingYaras Poetry, Art, Music Media Talks and Screenings include: the monthly series UKR-CoLab that presents new work, new ideas and collaborations at Self Reliance Assoc in New York, Talk by the director of the Ukrainian Museum on David Burliuk at the East Village Basement, Yaras performance of Zhadan poetry at the LES Festival at Theatre for the New City, Virlana Tkacz on Yaras 35 Years at the Ukrainian Museum in New York, at the Garden on St Marks in New York and at the Centre Cultureld Ukraine in Paris. Yaras Zhadan and Friends: 2025 at the Bowery Poetry Club, Yaras The Magic of Light book presentation at UIMA in Chicago. Koliada in Kryvorivnia: Home live-stream on Facebook and Hutsul Chiltse or Wedding Bands livestream of film by Maria Dosiak.
$33,704 spentof which $30,393 as grants$5,676 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $173,446.
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 $22k to $52k (+138%).
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 16% · 2018 46% · 2019 18% · 2020 45% · 2021 34% · 2022 54% · 2023 29% · 2024 38% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of Yara Arts Group’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Board chair
Sam Glazer
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $15k → $8k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Yara Arts Group’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
Yara Arts Group has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
59% 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 Yara Arts Group.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 80% · 2019 94% · 2020 45% · 2021 73% · 2022 99% · 2023 92% — 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
50% of Yara Arts Group's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 Yara Arts Group'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. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Yara Arts Group receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $113k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Yara Arts Group
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Yara Arts Group: 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 Yara Arts Group?
- Yara Arts Group (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,886 to it, the largest being THE MAP FUND INC ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Yara Arts Group have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $112,886 in grants to Yara Arts Group, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Yara Arts Group?
- THE MAP FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Yara Arts Group 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 10 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