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BIDOUN PROJECTS INC

BIDOUN PROJECTS INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,247,355 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($750,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$991k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$718k
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What Bidoun Projects Inc does

Mission

Bidoun projects is a publishing and curatorial initiative whose aim is to present new and unexpected ideas about middle eastern arts and culture. Bidoun produces an avant-garde magazine that combines elements of an art magazine and literary journal(con't on schedule o) it is circulated to approximately 4,500 individuals and institutions, and more than 23,000 readers view the material via our website, newsletters and social media feeds. Our contributors include artists, writers, activists, filmmakers and entrepreneurs from across the globe and our curatorial activities take form as exhibitions, film screenings, lectures and book launches.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Bidoun.orgbidoun.org is the comprehensive archival website and publishing platform for bidoun magazine. Comprised of 6,039 images, 1,071 articles, 512 authors and 29 issues, bidoun.org presents 10 years of the print magazine in a digital archive made available online for free. In addition, newly commissioned long-form articles, translations, and artist projects were published on the platform throughout the calendar year on a monthly basis reaching over 23,000 unique viewers online and over 26,000 followers on social media.

    $94,363 spent$200 earned by the program
    52% of program spending

  2. Solidarity micrograntsbidoun administered microgrants to artists, writers, and curators who have experienced serious economic hardship and professional censorship due to their anti-war stance in the context of the israeli-palestinian conflict. Microgrants were issued to 12 individuals from 3 different countries identified from over 100 unique grant request submissions.

    $67,500 spentof which $67,500 as grants
    37% of program spending

  3. Nicolas moufarrege publicationbidoun conducted research and planning for a forthcominglarge-scale monograph on the life and work of artist nicolasmoufarrege. This included editorial and scholarly research, thecommissioning of long-form essays, editorial photography anddocumentation of archival works.

    $18,567 spent
    10% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $180,430.

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 ($74k) Expenses 100 ($147k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2018 Revenue 343 ($255k) Expenses 146 ($216k) Net assets 196 ($81k)2019 Revenue 259 ($193k) Expenses 124 ($182k) Net assets 221 ($91k)2020 Revenue 250 ($186k) Expenses 110 ($162k) Net assets 279 ($115k)2021 Revenue 310 ($231k) Expenses 116 ($171k) Net assets 425 ($175k)2022 Revenue 110 ($82k) Expenses 110 ($161k) Net assets 231 ($95k)2023 Revenue 163 ($121k) Expenses 124 ($183k) Net assets 81 ($33k)2024 Revenue 1331 ($991k) Expenses 207 ($306k) Net assets 1744 ($718k)
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Revenue (1331)Expenses (207)Net assets (1744)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 2023 to 2024, from $41k to $722k (+1679%).

$42k
$86k
$94k
$133k
$177k
$102k
$41k
$722k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of BIDOUN PROJECTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$73k
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$40k
’18
$10k
’19
$24k
’20
$60k
’21
−$80k
’22
−$62k
’23
$685k
’24
28
months of
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.

2018202120222024
Listed99911
Joined··+0·
No longer listed··0·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $45k.

Funder
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1 of 11 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 BIDOUN PROJECTS 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

BIDOUN PROJECTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

60%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 59% · 2022 95% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.

“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

33% of BIDOUN PROJECTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

97% of BIDOUN PROJECTS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

ME
NY
OH
CA

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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

BIDOUN PROJECTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin69% · top quartile
Months of reserve28.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)45% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 31%Fundraising 10%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

36%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds BIDOUN PROJECTS INC?
BIDOUN PROJECTS INC (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,247,355 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($750,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIDOUN PROJECTS INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,247,355 in grants to BIDOUN PROJECTS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIDOUN PROJECTS INC?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIDOUN PROJECTS 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.

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 11 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