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New York · Public charity

Recess Activities Inc

Recess partners with artists and youth to build a more just and equitable creative community. By welcoming radical thinkers to imagine and shape networks of resilience and safety, recess defines and advances the possibilities of contemporary art. Our programs offer space and resources to generate art, ideas and actions that challenge…

$625k
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
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100% of Recess Activities Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Tides Center, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Itemized, FY2021
$10k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$10,000
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$4.5M

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2021.

TIDES CENTER$10,000

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About Recess Activities Inc

How much does Recess Activities Inc give?
Recess Activities Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $10,000, out of $624,931 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Recess Activities Inc fund?
By grant dollars, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Where is Recess Activities Inc based?
Recess Activities Inc is based in NY.

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 1 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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