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Participant Inc

$611k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $588,645, the rows itemized in this filing. The $610,953 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,308 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $581k
$19,355
Median grant
2
States reached
$976k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Spicy Zine$19,355
Independent Curatos International$19,355
Danspace Project$19,355
Luminal Theater Corp$19,355
Harvest Works Inc$19,355
Theater Et Al Inc$19,355
Queer Art$19,355
Wendy's Subway$19,355
A Gathering Of Tribes$19,355
Asian American Arts Alliance$19,355
Arts For Arts Inc$19,355
Electronic Arts Intermix$19,355
Bidoun Projects$19,355
Canopy Canopy Canopy$19,355
Primary Information$19,355
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Theater Et Al Inc: $19k → 13%Asian American Arts Alliance: $19k → 17%Primary Information: $19k → 20%Luminal Theater Corp: $19k → 16%Franklin Furnace: $19k → 13%Maysles Documentary Center: $19k → 17%Ugly Duckling Presse: $19k → 20%UnionDocs Inc: $19k → 13%Queer Art: $19k → 17%Blank Forms: $19k → 20%Cousin Collective Inc: $19k → 13%The Poetry Project LTD: $19k → 17%Spicy Zine: $19k → 20%Anthology Film ArchiveAnthology Film Archive: $19k → 17%Light Industry Cinema Projects LTD: $19k → 20%A Gathering Of Tribes: $19k → 17%Wendy's Subway: $19k → 20%Visual Aids: $19k → 17%The Brooklyn Rail: $19k → 20%Danspace Project: $19k → 17%Issue Project Room: $19k → 20%Harvest Works Inc: $19k → 17%Bidoun Projects: $19k → 20%Art Matters: $8k → 17%Mono No Aware: $19k → 20%Arts For Arts Inc: $19k → 17%Movement Research Inc: $19k → 17%The Clemente Soto Vlez Cultural & Education Center Inc: $19k → 17%Canopy Canopy Canopy: $19k → 17%Electronic Arts Intermix: $19k → 17%Independent Curatos International: $19k → 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
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
Artnoir Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Arts Letters and Numbers
Arts & Culture
6
Global Arts Project Inc
Arts & Culture
7
The Black Literacy and Arts Collaborative Project
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8
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
9
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
10
California Institute of Contemporary Art
—
11
Berggruen Institute
Education
12
Art of Brooklyn Festival

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Issue Project Room Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
11/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRIMARY INFORMATION INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureCLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATION CENTER: $19,355 · Arts & CultureDANSPACE PROJECT INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureHARVESTWORKS INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureQUEER ART INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureLUMINAL THEATER CORP: $19,355 · Arts & CultureUGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD: $19,355 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $19,355 · Arts & CultureTHEATER ET AL INC DBA THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER: $19,355 · Arts & CultureGATHERING OF THE TRIBES: $19,355 · Arts & CultureWENDYS SUBWAY INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureCANOPY CANOPY CANOPY INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureLIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD: $19,355 · Arts & CultureBIDOUN PROJECTS INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureASIAN AMERICAN ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR ART INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC: $19,355 · Arts & CultureUNIONDOCS INC: $19,354 · Arts & CultureVISUAL AIDS FOR THE ARTS INC: $19,354 · Arts & CultureCousin Collective Inc: $19,354 · Arts & CultureBLANK FORMS INC: $19,354 · Arts & CultureMONO NO AWARE INC: $19,354 · Arts & CultureTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $19,355 · OtherTHE POETRY P…FRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE INC: $19,355 · OtherFRANKLIN FUR…Spicy Zine: $19,355 · OtherSpicy ZineART MATTERS INC: $8,000 · OtherART MATTERS …ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: $19,355 · Education
Arts & Culture$503,225Other$66,065Education$19,355

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRIMARY INFORMATION INC: $19,355 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $19,355 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC: $19,355 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $19,355 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATION CENTER: $19,355 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDANSPACE PROJECT INC: $19,355 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHARVESTWORKS INC: $19,355 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX INC: $19,355 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetQUEER ART INC: $19,355 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLUMINAL THEATER CORP: $19,355 over 1y, 22% of budgetUGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD: $19,355 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE INC: $19,355 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $19,355 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHEATER ET AL INC DBA THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER: $19,355 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGATHERING OF THE TRIBES: $19,355 over 1y, 30% of budgetWENDYS SUBWAY INC: $19,355 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCANOPY CANOPY CANOPY INC: $19,355 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: $19,355 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC: $19,355 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD: $19,355 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetBIDOUN PROJECTS INC: $19,355 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $19,355 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetARTS FOR ART INC: $19,355 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC: $19,355 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNIONDOCS INC: $19,354 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVISUAL AIDS FOR THE ARTS INC: $19,354 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCousin Collective Inc: $19,354 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetBLANK FORMS INC: $19,354 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMONO NO AWARE INC: $19,354 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetART MATTERS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

Robert Rauschenberg F…Shelley & Donald Rubi…The Andy Warhol Found…The Ford FoundationJerome Foundation IncThe New York Communit…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Andrew W Mellon F…New York Council for …Mid Atlantic Arts IncMediathe Foundation I…Marta Heflin Foundati…
Robert Rauschenberg FoundationNY30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Participant Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Participant Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 Participant Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Participant 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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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