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Indiespace Inc

Indiespace celebrates and centers independent theater-making in new york city.

$581k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$440kScience & Tech$150kReligion$10k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $140,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $581,384 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $441,184 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $134k
$10,100
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUGINGO STUDIOS LLC$33,000
OPEN CHANNELS NEW YORK INC DBA DIXON PLACE EL COVAN$10,100
NOOSPHERE ARTS$10,100
GINGER GOOSE INC DBA QED ASTORIA$10,100
IRT THEATER INC$10,100
ST LYDIA'S$10,100
BROOKLYN ARTS HAUS LLC$10,100
NEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE COMPANY$10,100
INSPIRATION POINT CENTER FOR THE ARTS$10,000
THE LITTLE VICTORY THEATER$10,000
DANCE ENTROPY$10,000
UKRAINIAN CHORUS DUMKLA OF NY$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INSPIRATION POINT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Tank Ltd

The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…

Arts & Culture
2
Parity Productions Inc
Arts & Culture
3
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
4
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
5
Nicus Spoon Inc

The production of theater for and with disabled and marginalized artists. also the creation of NY theatrical standards.

Arts & Culture
6
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
7
All Out Arts Inc

Cultural-educational, via multi-discipline arts hosting for the general public, and technical support for arts professionals.

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8
Noveltease Theatre

Noveltease Theatre pays homage to literary burlesque of the late 19th century by combining theatrical adaptations of classic texts with contemporary striptease. Our intention is not to mock, but to productively muddle the "highbrow" art of…

Arts & Culture
9
React Theatre

Charitable and Educational. Non-Profit Theatre Company inculcating in the general public a greater appreciation of the dramatic and performing arts

Arts & Culture
10
Theatre Tweed Inc

Promoting new artists in the performing arena

Arts & Culture
11
Theatre Lab Inc

Since 2006, Theaterlabs mission is to serve New Yorks diverse communities of artists and the general public by presenting and developing new theater works. Theaterlab is a women and artist-led laboratory dedicated to researching the nature…

Arts & Culture
12
The Alchemy Theater

The Alchemy Theatre's mission is to present stories with fierce resonant truth, in an intimate and inclusive environment, with professionalism, and in compelling collaboration with quality theatre artists at large.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Instituto Arte Teatral Internacional Inc; the most unlike its peers is Roxanne Dance Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
6/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADC CONSULTING LLC: $150,000 · OtherADC CONSULTING LLCBUGINGO STUDIOS LLC: $33,000 · OtherBUGINGO STUDIOS LLCThe Lit Fund: $32,000 · OtherThe Lit FundAMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS INC: $20,100 · OtherAMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS INCMISE EN PLACE INC: $20,100 · OtherMISE EN PLACE INCFOOTLIGHT PRESENTS: $20,100 · OtherFOOTLIGHT PRESENTSHUB17: $20,100 · OtherHUB17PMT HOUSE OF DANCE: $20,100 · OtherPMT HOUSE OF DANCE+5 more: $50,400 · Other+5 moreROXANNE DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $20,100 · Arts & CultureROXANNE DANCE FOUNDATION INCCULTURE LAB LIC INC: $20,100 · Arts & CultureCULTURE LAB LIC INCINSTITUTO ARTE TEATRAL INTERNACIONAL INC: $20,100 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTO ARTE TEATRAL INTERNACIONAL I…BATED BREATH THEATRE COMPANY: $20,100 · Arts & CultureBATED BREATH THEATRE COMPANYTHE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $20,100 · Arts & CultureTHE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INCTHE LATINO EXPERIMENTAL FANTASTIC LATINO THEATER INC: $20,100 · Arts & CultureTHE LATINO EXPERIMENTAL FANTASTIC LATI…VARIATIONS THEATRE GROUP INC: $20,100 · Arts & CultureVARIATIONS THEATRE GROUP INCThe Brick Theater Inc: $11,200 · Arts & CultureThe Brick Theater IncNOOSPHERE ARTS INC: $10,100 · Arts & CultureNEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE COMPANY INC: $10,100 · Arts & CultureOpen Channels New York Inc dba Dixon Place: $10,100 · Arts & CultureDance Entropy Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreTOPAZ ARTS INC: $20,100 · EducationINSPIRATION POINT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$365,900Arts & Culture$204,200Education$20,100Human Services$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Lit Fund: $32,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS INC: $20,100 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetROXANNE DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $20,100 over 2y, 87% of budgetCULTURE LAB LIC INC: $20,100 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetINSTITUTO ARTE TEATRAL INTERNACIONAL INC: $20,100 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTOPAZ ARTS INC: $20,100 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetBATED BREATH THEATRE COMPANY: $20,100 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $20,100 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE LATINO EXPERIMENTAL FANTASTIC LATINO THEATER INC: $20,100 over 1y, 64% of budgetVARIATIONS THEATRE GROUP INC: $20,100 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe Brick Theater Inc: $11,200 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNOOSPHERE ARTS INC: $10,100 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetIRT THEATER INC: $10,100 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetNEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE COMPANY INC: $10,100 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetDance Entropy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetINSPIRATION POINT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetUKRAINIAN CHORUS DUMKA OF AMERICA INC: $6,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNational Queer Theater: $5,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Alliance of Resident …The Howard Gilman Fou…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Alliance of Resident Theatres New York IncNY17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Indiespace Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Indiespace Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Indiespace Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Indiespace Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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