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Sapan Studio 4 Inc at a glance

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Sapan Studio 4 Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$115k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$184kCivil Rights$29kInternational$11kEducation$9kHealth$3kCrime & Legal$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $94k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$69k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PUBLIC THEATRE$25,435
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE$25,000
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC$21,300
Individual grant recipient$12,270
FRIENDS OF HAITI AIR AMBULANCE$10,000
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY$5,000
EMPATHY PROJECT$2,500
EARL MONROE SCHOOL$2,500
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC$2,500
INNOCENCE PROJECT$1,500
THE ACTING COMPANY$1,400
OCEANIC SOCIETY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
UWS CINEMA CENTER$1,000
KIPP FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY LEGAL CARE: $500 → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$108k · 3 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$108k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+7%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TP
    THE PUBLIC THEATRE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • AM
    AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGEgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $73k · revenue +51%
  • TS
    THE SHELTER ISLAND HEIGHTS PRESERVATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • TN
    The New School
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +7%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
2
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
3
Workforce Professionals Training Institute

Wpti's mission is to build the capacities of people, programs, and organizations that provide job training, placement, and career guidance for individuals and to advocate for policies that promote economic opportunities for all.

Employment
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
7
Institute for Shipboard Education

Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.

Education
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Lycee Francais De New York

"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Museum of the Moving Image. 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

16 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. 16 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE: $73,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGETHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTESIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $21,300 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PUBLIC THEATRE: $50,435 · OtherTHE PUBLIC THEATREIndividual grant recipient: $12,270 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $7,500 · OtherPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAYTHE SHELTER ISLAND HEIGHTS PRESERVATION: $5,000 · OtherTHE SHELTER ISLAND HEIGHTS PRESERVATION+11 more: $12,480 · Other+11 moreFRIENDS OF HAITI AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $10,000 · HealthThe New School: $2,500 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $2,500 · EducationKIPP FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationDAY ONE EARLY LEARNING COMMUNITY INC: $1,000 · EducationSHELTER ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY: $1,000 · EducationTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $500 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$145,300Other$87,685Health$10,000Education$8,000Human Services$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE: $73,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $21,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAITI AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe New School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARKSIDE SCHOOL: $1,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOceanic Society Expeditions: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAY ONE EARLY LEARNING COMMUNITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Sapan Studio 4 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sapan Studio 4 Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 28 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-PF 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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