ANNUAL REPORT 2016 - 2017 MISSION ARTIST VISITS

Free Arts NYC provides underserved children with a unique The Museum/Studio Visit Program creates combination of educational arts and mentoring programs opportunities for teens to have access to leaders that help them foster the self-confidence and resiliency in the NYC visual arts community. Youth and needed to realize their fullest potential. mentor pairs meet monthly, to tour artists’ studios, participate in creative workshops, and OUR PROGRAMS build visual literacy. 2016-2017 artist visits include Matthew Day Jackson, Curtis Kulig, Rashid TEEN ARTS PROGRAM (TAP) Johnson, and Taryn Simon.

Teens access NYC cultural institutions and explore the arts as a potential academic or professional goal through museum visits, internships, and portfolio mentorships.

FREE ARTS DAYS (FAD)

Youth ages 6-13 pair with volunteer buddies at a “pop-up” arts festival for a day of art-making and exploration with a supportive adult mentor.

FAMILY FREE ARTS DAY

Volunteer as a family. Each family is paired with one or two children for a day of collaborative art making and play.

ART PARTIES

Adults-only volunteering. Help us prepare materials that will be used in our programs across the city.

THE NEED OUR IMPACT 1 in 3 NYC public schools lack an Served 32,000 children and art room famlies and engaged 18,000 volunteers

Only 11% of creative professionals 100% of Teen Portfolio Mentees are are from a minority background. accepted to a high school of the choice

1 in 3 young people will grow Nearly 50% of Free Arts NYC youth up without a mentor are currently living in a shelter

OUR APPROACH EVALUATION PARTNER with organizations and schools in We strive to provide the highest underserved communities quality programming, and measure ENSURE each child and teen has the attention of a 1 on 1 mentor our effectiveness with two CREATE ACCESS to the arts and exposure to evaulation systems all of which are creative careers proven to contribute to long-term BUILD self-esteem, confidence, collaboratio, & problem-solving skills gains such as thriving, decreased CREATE a meaninful connection between youth risk-taking behavior, and increased and role models academics IGNITE a spark in our youth to pursue viable creative career paths 2016 FINANCIALS A FEW HIGHLIGHTS BALANCE SHEET JONATHAN HOROWITZ INSPIRES ANNUAL BRANT FOUNDATION ASSETS FREE ARTS DAY Cash 158,300 On October 1, 2016, The Brant Foundation welcomed 91 children from the Investments & Security Deposits 63,246 Department of Homeless Services to Greenwich, CT for a remarkable day Unconditional Promises to Give 176,882 filled with art, fun, fresh air and much needed personal attention. Children Prepaid Expenses and Other Assets 20,959 created self-portrait mirrors, tote bags, passion projects, duct tape food, Property and Equipment, At Cost, and collaborative glitter flags all inspired by Horowitz’s exhibit. 31,600 Net of Accumulated Depreciation TOTAL ASSETS 450,987 ANNUAL ART AUCTION LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS Our 17th Annual Art Auction on April 27, 2017 hosted by Richard Prince, celebrated the late Glenn O’Brien. Over 300 guests attended for cocktails Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses 17,579 and the auction which was followed by an intimate dinner hosted by Fendi. Deferred Rent 213,151 Total Liabilities 230,730 JUNIOR BOARD AUCTION Unrestricted Net Assets 134,641 Free Arts NYC’s 4th Junior Board Auction took place on November 10, 2016 Temporarily Restricted Net Assets 85,616 at Fort Gansevoort Gallery. Guests enjoyed an a silent auction comprised Total Net Assets 220,257 of food, music and travel experiences, in addition to a selection of TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS 450,987 contemporary artworks curated by Uprise Art.

REVENUE & EXPENSES

SUPPORT & REVENUE Grants & Contributions 1,058,597 Donated Services, Materials, Use of Facility 60,567 Fundraising Events 646,029 Other 9,016 TOTAL REVENUE 1,774,209 EXPENSES Program Services 1,554,597 Management & General 151,884 Fundraising 406,162 TOTAL EXPENSES 2,112,146 INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS Annual Art Auction Unrestricted (289,437) Junior Board Auction Temporarily Restricted 37,116 Total Decrease in Net Assets 252,321 Net Assets, Beginning of Year 472,578 NET ASSETS 220,257 ADONAI’S STORY: SKY’S THE LIMIT

REVENUE “WHEN I FIRST HEARD THE NEWS, 41% Events I fell off my bed because I knew I was 5% Grants going somewhere.” 23% Individuals 30% Corporations Last year, through Free Arts’ Portfolio 1% Government Mentorship program, Adonai applied and successfully gained entrance into the High School of Art and Design. He credits his mentor, Aubrey, with preparing him for the rigorous process and keeping him on track for deadlines. “She was concerned for me, but it never turned into frustration.” EXPENSES 17% Arts Mentoring Program Adonai entered Free Arts in 2012 with tremendous artistic talent and quickly took 28% Free Arts Day Program to Artist Studio Visits. “I loved the diverse cast of artists.” He spent time with 19% Fundraising Rashid Johnson, Jack Early, Dan Colen, Hanna Liden, and many more, feeling 17% PACT Program 12% Teen Arts Program inspired each time because he learned “artists are regular people doing what 7% Administration they love.”

This love for art fuels his desire to pursue illustration and animation as a career. Citing animators like Hayao Miyazaki and Bryan Konietzko as influences, he feels prepared for the journey. “Textbooks and videos can only help you so much, Free Arts helped me learn by doing. I have a much better idea of what artists go through before they put their work in a gallery.” 2016 CORPORATE & BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS KATE BOLDUAN Anchor, CNN DANIEL EHRMANN King Street Capital Management, L.P. GARRETT FAIL Partner, Business Finance & Restructuring, Weil, Gotshal & Manges DANIEL LEVINE Managing Partner, Tenfore Holdings $50,000+ Drivers Family Foundation Fund JON MEYERS Principal, HR&A Albee Development LLC JP Morgan Chase Foundation Niche Media DAVID MIELKE Partner, PwC Transactions Services Deutsche Bank COURTNEY ROBINSON Partner, Advance Venture Motsyn Foundation Sony The Guardian Life Insurance Partners (AVP) $25,000+ Company of America LINDA SCHAPS MA, MSW Anonymous Donor The Laura B, Vogler Foundation RICHARD SCHAPS CEO, Van Wagner Communications Bank of America Foundation Time Warner Cable LESLIE SLOVER Regional Head, Technology Center and BNP Paribas Vogue Service Center for the Americas, Deutsche Bank TRINA STORFER Executive Vice President, Mixed Media Goldman Sachs & Co. $1,000+ HBO Group Phillips-Van Heusen American Eagle Outfitters CAROL SUCHMAN Investor, NYVP.com Polo Ralph Lauren Foundation Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc LINDSAY TAYLOR Taylor Art Advisor Ascena Foundation Uniqlo MATTHEW B. TAYLOR Managing Partner, Kortright Capital Ashurst LLP Partners LP $10,000+ Bank of America MARLIES VERHOEVEN REIJTENBAGH CEO & Co-Founder, Burberry Alliance Bernstein The Cultivist Eileen Fisher Arnow Family Foundation JORDAN C. ZAKEN Founder and Co-CIO, Gamut Capital Centerbridge Foundation Kenneth Cole Productions Credit Suisse Americas Foundation KPMG LLP Disney Worldwide Outreach LinkedIn Fendi Marcie Eberhart Guggenheim Partners Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation 2016-17 HBO O’Melveny & Myers LLP Muna & Basem Hishmeh Foundation Pittsburgh Foundation Quadra Productions Prologis COMMUNITY PARTNERS Salesforce Roivant Sciences Inc CAMBA’S BEACON CENTER AT PS 269 Shulman Family Foundation Samsung Electronics CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY: Dunlevy Milbank Center After Sotheby’s The Banks-Baldwin Foundation School Program Thomson Reuters Swarovski COMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL Swarovski Foundation DEPARTMENT OF HOMELESS SERVICES IN KIND $1,000+ Theodore Eckert Foundation DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL The Richard & Natalie Jacoff American Folk Art Museum AMH EAST BRONX ACADEMY FOR THE FUTURE Foundation FRESH CREEK SCHOOL Victoria’s Secret Art in America Magazine GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: Euphrasian Residence • Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Aspen Skiing Company Babyganics Marian Hall BFA Images Matter GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT: 80 Pitt Street Community $5,000+ Bronx Museum of the Arts Center • Beacon Community Center • Jacob Riis Automated Data Processing Brooklyn Museum Center • Seward Park Cornerstone Capital One Bank Children’s Museum of the Arts “I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION” - NEW YORK: East Citigroup Foundation Couer Noir Specialty Printers Harlem Program Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation DIA: Beacon ISAACS CENTER: Johnson’s Cornerstone Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Downing Frames LINCOLN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER Memorial Fund El Museo Del Bario LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH Ellery Homestyles, LLC International Center of Photography SERVICE First Republic Bank Jetblue Airways S:US: Fox Point • Stratford House Horizon Media Inc. Ketel One PS 5 ELLEN LURIE SCHOOL Kaye Scholer LLP Land’s End PELHAM LAB HIGH SCHOOL Le District McKinsey & Company UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION Museum of Chinese in America Mitsuibishi UFJ Financial Group UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: Beacon Center • Campos Museum of the City of New York PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Plaza Cornerstone• Houston Street Center • OST Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide New Museum Program • Washington Houses Saks Fifth Avenue Peroni Italy YM&YWHA OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS AND INWOOD: Shearman & Sterling Posterscope USA Family Literacy Program Spotify Rizzoli Swarovski The Jewish Museum MOTT HALL II The Brant Foundation Art Study Center The Noguchi Museum LEXINGTON ACADEMY The Hyde and Watson Foundation The Soho Grand Hotel Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum F R E E Foundation, Inc. South Street Seaport Museum Viacom Society of Illustrators VOYA Foundation Studio Museum in Harlem Wave Hill Warby Parker N Y C Whitney Museum of American Art $2,500+ Creative Circle, LLC Free Arts NYC · 1431 Broadway, 7th Fl · New York, NY 10018 Criteo 212.974.9092 · @freeartsnyc · www.freeartsnyc.org