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BlackBox Ensemble Inc
BlackBox Ensemble Inc (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,750 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($1,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $3k
What BlackBox Ensemble Inc does
Mission
To present and promote contemporary classical music through innovative, interdisciplinary performances; to support living composers; and to engage diverse audiences through education, collaboration, and community-based programming. BlackBox Ensemble produced live performances featuring contemporary repertoire and interdisciplinary collaborations. The ensemble supported the development and presentation of new works by emerging and established composers, including premieres and multimedia projects. In addition, BlackBox conducted educational residencies, workshops, and masterclasses at universities and community institutions. These activities aim to expand access to contemporary music, support artistic creation, and foster engagement with diverse audiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Described as "ambitious" by TimeOut and The New Yorker, the New York City-based BlackBox Ensemble creates immersive, interdisciplinary, and site-responsive performances that engage deeply with classical traditions while reimagining them through contemporary lenses, opening space for new ideas, collaborations, and ways of listening. BlackBox has presented work at leading museums, festivals, and performance spaces across the U.S., including the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, The Whitney Museum, Bang on a Can's Long Play Festival, National Sawdust, Roulette Intermedium, the Clark Art Institute, the Noguchi Museum, and PS21. The ensemble has toured nationally and held residencies at universities including NYU, University of Chicago, Penn State, George Washington University, UC Davis, University of Richmond, University of Michigan, University of Florida, and San Francisco State University, among others. Recent highlights include a three-performance run of Speculative Listening: The Sonic World of Julius Eastman, a program exploring Eastman's influences curated by Eastman scholar Isaac Jean-Francois in collaboration with Kyle Marshall Choreography, as well as The Sound of…
$57,350 spentof which $24,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,350.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Leonard Bopp
Executive Director & Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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 BlackBox Ensemble 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 BlackBox Ensemble 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
BlackBox Ensemble Inc receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
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Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BlackBox Ensemble Inc?
- BlackBox Ensemble Inc (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,750 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($1,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BlackBox Ensemble Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,750 in grants to BlackBox Ensemble Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of BlackBox Ensemble Inc?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BlackBox Ensemble 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), 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