New York · Nonprofit
BLANK FORMS INC
BLANK FORMS INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,037,853 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($651,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $912k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $693k
What Blank Forms Inc does
Mission
Blank Forms is a curatorial platform dedicated to the presentation and preservation of time-based performance practices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Blank Forms provides comprehensive support to emerging and underrepresented artists and archives, offering resources and platforms for their work. In the fiscal year January 1December 31, 2025, Blank Forms presented 42 events and 3 exhibitions, and published 7 books and records, while stewarding artist estates and archives behind the scenes. Programs were held at the organizations two venues in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, as well as off-site across New York City and Los Angeles, as well as internationally in Paris and Stockholm.Blank Forms continued to expand its archival services across 2025, formalizing our stewardship of the legacies of Catherine Christer Hennix and liane Radiguetwo artists whose work the organization has long commissioned, presented, published, and preserved. The Etymon Foundation was created for the study and advancement of Hennixs life and work, while Blank Forms announced its representation of Radigues early work for magnetic tape, created from 1968 to 1999. Blank Forms will oversee the live concerts and installations of these electronic compositions, in partnership with Franois J. Bonnet and Ina GRMGroupe de Recherches Musicales. Additionally, Blank Forms…
$736,815 spent$164,316 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $736,815.
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 $223k to $964k (+332%).
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 3% · 2018 28% · 2019 9% · 2020 8% · 2021 21% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 11% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of BLANK FORMS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Walker Carpenter
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $25k → $482k.
5 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 BLANK FORMS 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
BLANK FORMS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLANK FORMS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 65% · 2020 47% · 2021 23% · 2022 26% · 2023 31% — 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 BLANK FORMS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
90% of BLANK FORMS INC'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. $572k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BLANK FORMS INC has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BLANK FORMS INC
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLANK FORMS 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 BLANK FORMS INC?
- BLANK FORMS INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,037,853 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($651,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLANK FORMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,037,853 in grants to BLANK FORMS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLANK FORMS INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $651,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLANK FORMS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing