Congratulations to These New 501c3 Nonprofit Organizations

New organizations “graduated” out of NYFA’s Fiscal Sponsorship Program after multiple years of support and incubation.

NYFA’s Fiscal Sponsorship program supports artists across all disciplines by providing the tools to help them develop creative projects, build organizations, and craft sustainable careers.

Many artists join Fiscal Sponsorship with a single project and then realize they have something bigger on their hands. Fiscal Sponsorship works as an incubator through which artists and collectives can expand their operations and transition to becoming independent organizations. 

These four organizations recently completed the process of becoming independent non-profits and have received 501c3 status from the IRS. We are extremely honored to have been part of their generative process.

Read about their amazing programs below:

The Black Artist Dance Collective

Founded by Broadway dancer and Atlanta native Shonica Gooden, The Black Artists Dance Collective is an alliance of Black dance professionals who uplift, support, inspire, and empower Atlanta’s Black dance community. TBADC joined NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship in 2022 with the mission to connect the Atlanta Black Dance Community to resources and opportunities both nationally and internationally, through education and community engagement. TBADC has offered summer dance intensives to teenage dancers and college-bound students embarking on a career in dance.

Soon Is Now

Soon Is Now presents climate art and live performance in an annual festival at Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park in Beacon, NY. Initiated by Eve Morgenstern, Soon Is Now invites the public into the space of evocative performance and art to inspire deeper awareness of climate change and its impacts. Thanks to a generous gift from The Jerome and Marlene Brody Foundation, Soon is Now is launching as a non-profit organization in 2025, offering year-round climate arts programming, exhibitions, and artist residencies. 

Museums Moving Forward

Museums Moving Forward is an organization devoted to envisioning and creating a more just museum sector by 2030. Together with a diverse network of museums, cultural workers, and philanthropists across the US, MMF drives urgent conversations about the most effective ways to make and measure real change inside museum workplaces. Through data, discourse, and empowerment, MMF is committed to the evolution of museums toward equity by improving the working conditions and lives of cultural workers.

Speciwomen

Speciwomen is an arts organization committed to giving women and LGBTQIA+ artists space for retreat, research, and making. Philo Cohen started Speciwomen in 2015, aiming to foster safer and wider spaces for womxn artists to be recognized and heard. Speciwomen hosts an artist-in-residence program, publishes books, catalogs, and a biannual magazine, and is home to a growing library. The project joined NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship in 2023 to fundraise for their publications, and became their own 501c3 in 2024. You can visit their library in New York, NY by appointment on Saturdays from 12:00-6:00 PM.

–Andrea Kleine, Program Officer, Fiscal Sponsorship

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