New York · Nonprofit
DESIGN FC INC
DESIGN FC INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,434 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($33,950). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $117k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Design Fc Inc does
Mission
Design fc teaches youth in under-resourced communities the core elements of creative thinking, self expression, and storytelling through design. Our goal is to provide students with the tools, resources, and opportunities they need to express themselves and pursue their creative dreams.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Design fc teaches youth in under-resourced communities the core elements of creative thinking, self expression, and storytelling through design. Our goal is to provide students with the tools, resources, and opportunities they need to express themselves and pursue their creative dreams.
$47,781 spent$126,902 earned by the program48% of program spendingThe jersey project is a global initiative providing youth teams with an opportunitiy to design their own teams' jerseys that represent who they are and where they're from. Through collaborations with professional sports teams, athletes, and brands.
$31,691 spent32% of program spendingThe design fc academy is a specialized program that provides students who have been with the program for 3+ years with the life changing resources, access, exposure to pursue their creative dreams. By leveraging some of the biggest names in sport, design, fashion, and media, we give our academy students unparalleled access to the creative careers they are interestedin exploring.
$20,118 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $99,590.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $35k to $69k (+94%).
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.
69% of DESIGN FC 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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Omri Gal
Board president/executive
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $26k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 DESIGN FC 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
DESIGN FC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 DESIGN FC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 85% · 2023 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
61% of DESIGN FC INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $46k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
DESIGN FC INC has grown faster than three-quarters 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
Organizations like DESIGN FC 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DESIGN FC 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 DESIGN FC INC?
- DESIGN FC INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,434 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($33,950). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DESIGN FC INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $117,434 in grants to DESIGN FC INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESIGN FC INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $33,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESIGN FC 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 9 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