New York · Nonprofit
BANG ON A CAN
BANG ON A CAN (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,480,155 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($870,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Bang on a Can does
Mission
Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. Bang on a Can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. Through it's summer institute, Bang on a Can hopes to bring this energy and passion for innovation to a younger generation of composers and players.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
During the 2024-25 (fy25) season, Bang on a Can deepened our artistic impact and continued to grow our reach through bold, inclusive programming and wide-ranging partnerships. We presented over 100 concerts and public events across new york city and internationally, commissioning and premiering new work, supporting emerging and established artists, and connecting diverse audiences to adventurous music. At the center of our season was the fourth annual long play festival, held may 2-4, 2025. In 2025, long play welcomed over 10,000 attendees across 12 venues including bam, roulette, pioneer works, issue project room, the space at irondale, bric, public records, fort greene park, and more. (continued on schedule o)box office revenue more than doubled from $103,000 to $235,000. The festival included a free two-day "free in fort greene" series with 15 concerts in public and community-accessible spaces. The lineup spanned generations and genres--from experimental icons to new voices--underscoring our commitment to musical innovation and cultural inclusivity.programming highlights included a 90th birthday celebration of terry riley, featuring a new arrangement of a rainbow in curved air…
$1,270,738 spent$759,115 earned by the program40% of program spendingThrough a competitive federal request for proposals, the organization was awarded a grant in september 2011 to administer an international cultural exchange program called onebeat. The contract was awarded through the united states department of state burueau of education and cultural affairs. The program calls for the creation of two (2) iterations of month- long residency and tour of the united states for more than two dozen world class musicians from nations such as china, pakistan, congo, poland, venezuela, haiti and others, as well as programs abroad determined on an annual basis. The program began during fiscal year 2012 and had been extended through fiscal year 2028 until the abrupt termination by the federal goverment in february 2025.
$1,867,778 spentof which $1,568,928 as grants60% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,138,516.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $702k to $1.2M (+67%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 36% · 2019 46% · 2020 42% · 2021 64% · 2022 61% · 2023 66% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of BANG ON A CAN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $38k → $555k.
7 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 BANG ON A CAN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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
BANG ON A CAN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 31% · 2019 59% · 2020 44% · 2021 43% · 2022 13% · 2023 50% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
42% of BANG ON A CAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of BANG ON A CAN's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $496k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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.
Against its field
BANG ON A CAN's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BANG ON A CAN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.4M on record.
- Department of State$14.7M
- National Endowment for the Arts$605k
- Department of the Interior$135k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BANG ON A CAN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BANG ON A CAN: 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 BANG ON A CAN?
- BANG ON A CAN (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,480,155 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($870,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BANG ON A CAN have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,480,155 in grants to BANG ON A CAN, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BANG ON A CAN?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $870,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BANG ON A CAN 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 40 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