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BOFFO INC

BOFFO INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,068,649 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($450,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.4M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$489k
8/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Boffo Inc does

Mission

Provides opportunities for the public to view works of art created by emerging, independent and diverse artists in a variety of different media and displayed in unconventional, underused and other creative spaces, thereby enriching the surrounding communities and increasing the general public's exposure to art.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Boffo residency fire island - artistic residences & presentations contextualized by the history and culture of the pines. Events & programs include musical performances, art exhibitions, experimental food presentations, movie screenings, painting workshops, craft lessons, and more. The boffo residency is open to the public in hopes of adding a positive cultural influence to its inhabitants & visitors of fire island new york. The organization hosts boffo performance festival fire island, a weekend of experimental music, performance, and dance.

    $740,168 spent$361,711 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $740,168.

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 ($225k) Expenses 100 ($109k) Net assets 100 ($32k)2018 Revenue 119 ($269k) Expenses 186 ($202k) Net assets 307 ($99k)2019 Revenue 99 ($222k) Expenses 193 ($210k) Net assets 346 ($112k)2020 Revenue 105 ($236k) Expenses 202 ($219k) Net assets 242 ($78k)2021 Revenue 147 ($330k) Expenses 377 ($409k) Net assets -3 ($-972)2022 Revenue 252 ($567k) Expenses 526 ($571k) Net assets -39 ($-12606)2023 Revenue 289 ($651k) Expenses 632 ($686k) Net assets -147 ($-47634)2024 Revenue 631 ($1.4M) Expenses 813 ($883k) Net assets 1512 ($489k)
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Revenue (631)Expenses (813)Net assets (1512)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 $99k to $548k (+455%).

$99k
$132k
$130k
$95k
$62k
$136k
$99k
$548k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

75% of BOFFO INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 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.

$117k
’17
$67k
’18
$13k
’19
$17k
’20
−$79k
’21
−$4k
’22
−$35k
’23
$536k
’24
5.8
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.

Chief executive

Faris Al-Shathir

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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No longer listed·0932036
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $75 → $58k.

7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 BOFFO 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

BOFFO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39% 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 BOFFO INC.

42%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 2023 51% — 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 BOFFO INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

99% of BOFFO INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
MA
CA
NC

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

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’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $420k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BOFFO INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like BOFFO 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.

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Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 15%Fundraising 1%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOFFO 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 BOFFO INC?
BOFFO INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,068,649 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($450,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOFFO INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,068,649 in grants to BOFFO INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOFFO INC?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOFFO 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 18 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