· Public charity
Participant Inc
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $588,645 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $610,953 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,308 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $581k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Electronic Arts Intermix | $19,355 |
| Arts For Arts Inc | $19,355 |
| Canopy Canopy Canopy | $19,355 |
| Primary Information | $19,355 |
| The Poetry Project LTD | $19,355 |
| Theater Et Al Inc | $19,355 |
| Ugly Duckling Presse | $19,355 |
| The Clemente Soto Vlez Cultural & Education Center Inc | $19,355 |
| Bidoun Projects | $19,355 |
| Franklin Furnace | $19,355 |
| Asian American Arts Alliance | $19,355 |
| Anthology Film ArchiveAnthology Film Archive | $19,355 |
| Issue Project Room | $19,355 |
| Movement Research Inc | $19,355 |
| Light Industry Cinema Projects LTD | $19,355 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…
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…
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Issue Project Room Inc and the most unlike its peers is Art Matters Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD ↗
- Who funds CANOPY CANOPY CANOPY INC ↗
- Who funds BIDOUN PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds PRIMARY INFORMATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THEATER ET AL INC DBA THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER ↗
- Who funds QUEER ART INC ↗
- Who funds LUMINAL THEATER CORP ↗
- Who funds ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WENDYS SUBWAY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR ART INC ↗
- Who funds ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds THE POETRY PROJECT LTD ↗
- Who funds DANSPACE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES ↗
- Who funds MAYSLES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD ↗
- Who funds GATHERING OF THE TRIBES ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIONDOCS INC ↗
- Who funds VISUAL AIDS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Cousin Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds BLANK FORMS INC ↗
- Who funds MONO NO AWARE INC ↗
- Who funds ART MATTERS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Robert Rauschenberg Foundation · Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Ford Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · New York Council for the Humanities · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Mediathe Foundation Inc · Marta Heflin Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Participant Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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