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ART IN A BOX INC

ART IN A BOX INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,678 to it, the largest being THE MARSHALL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($7,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$154
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$4k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Art in a Box Inc does

Mission

Art Education

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Project delayed due to Covid19. Programs in Development including: 1.) 'Nature in the City" students publication project to be launched in 2023 through 2024. Students from various local communities learn how to paint and then produce paintings of the wildlife common to the parks and environments local to their communities. A project in New York City would focus on Central Park and the lower Hudson River areas. 2.) 'Fashion Art Project for Girls' in Ethiopia, to be launched in 2024 (tentative).

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($12k) Expenses 100 ($24k) Net assets 100 ($15k)2018 Revenue 83 ($10k) Expenses 61 ($15k) Net assets 72 ($11k)2019 Revenue 10 ($1k) Expenses 29 ($7k) Net assets 36 ($5k)2020 Revenue 3 ($316) Expenses 4 ($924) Net assets 32 ($5k)2021 Revenue 1 ($154) Expenses 4 ($862) Net assets 27 ($4k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (1)Expenses (4)Net assets (27)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $11k to $5k (−51%).

$15k
$11k
$5k
$5k
$4k
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ART IN A BOX INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’17
−$4k
’18
−$6k
’19
−$608
’20
−$708
’21
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $30.

Funder
'17
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ART IN A BOX INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ART IN A BOX INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of ART IN A BOX INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ART IN A BOX INC's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2021.

Operating margin−460% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−67% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,119 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2021

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ART IN A BOX INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ART IN A BOX INC?
ART IN A BOX INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,678 to it, the largest being THE MARSHALL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($7,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ART IN A BOX INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,678 in grants to ART IN A BOX INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ART IN A BOX INC?
THE MARSHALL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ART IN A BOX INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing