New York · Nonprofit
ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION
ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,500 to it, the largest being INDIAN TRAIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Ellen Frank Illumination Arts Foundation does
Mission
To provide a framework and funding for the revival of the art of illumination through production of art, the training of artists and the education of a broad multicultural public in the traditions and techniques of illumination as historically and currently practiced throughout the world.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide a framework and funding for the revival of the art of illumination through production of art, training of artists and education of the public.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
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.
100% of ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $20k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION’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
ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% 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
38% 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 ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 50% — 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
85% of ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION'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. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,361 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,361 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Organizations like ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION: 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 ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION?
- ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,500 to it, the largest being INDIAN TRAIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $52,500 in grants to ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION?
- INDIAN TRAIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELLEN FRANK ILLUMINATION ARTS FOUNDATION 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 5 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