New York · Nonprofit
Beyond Booking Inc
Beyond Booking Inc (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($21,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $427k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $109k
What Beyond Booking Inc does
Mission
Beyond Booking is a community-driven nonprofit dedicated to the discovery, development, and promotion of new contemporary music and digital creativity in New York. We prioritize the work of LGBTQ+, BIPOC, working class, veteran, and female-identifying artists and ensure their sustained creativity and professional well-being. Founded in 2003, Beyond Booking has grown from a DIY newsletter into a cultural institution with four interconnected programs: a nonprofit booking agency, a record label, an educational mentorship initiative, and a celebrated series of inclusive events. We are deeply rooted in the queer and BIPOC subcultures that shaped NYC nightlife in the 1980s - and remain committed to building an ecosystem where artists can thrive, audiences feel welcome, and music is a force for collective liberation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, we grew the Board of Directors from four to seventeen people. We successfully onboarded all 13 new members, elected new officers, and held quarterly Board meetings. Additionally, we introduced new committees focused on communications, fundraising, social services and governance. We also formalized our conflict of interest, whistleblower, and record retention and destruction policies. Our communications department has completely revamped the website with a clearer articulation of the problems that Beyond Booking seeks to address. We have finalized a concise statement of what we do and why it matters. Our events department produced nine events with over 6,000 attendees in 2024. We have begun expanding into more daytime programming in NYC, which has been enthusiastically received by our community. Our artist representation program had yet another record-breaking year. We booked 650 gigs for artists we represent in 2024, generating $900,000 in revenue for our artists. Our mentorship and education program is still in pilot mode as we seek proper funding.However, we were able to provide over 50 music industry mentorship sessions for free to artists in NYC In 2024.
$336,926 spent$371,390 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $336,926.
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 2020 to 2021, from $932 to $101k (+10701%).
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: 2021 21% · 2022 9% · 2023 5% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Beyond Booking Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Beyond Booking 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Beyond Booking Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Beyond Booking Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Beyond Booking 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 Beyond Booking Inc?
- Beyond Booking Inc (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($21,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Beyond Booking Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $21,000 in grants to Beyond Booking Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Beyond Booking Inc?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $21,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Beyond Booking 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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