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ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION

ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,890 to it, the largest being TRUST FOR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$59k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$55k
Net assets
$62k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Es Experimental Intermedia Foundation does

Mission

Pursuit of artistic purpose

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Grants are given for the pursuit of an artistic purpose, I.e. Musical for the public.

    $29,500 spentof which $29,500 as grants
    46% of program spending
  2. Pursuit of artistic purpose

    $35,019 spent
    54% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,519.

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 ($22k) Expenses 100 ($51k) Net assets 100 ($79k)2018 Revenue 189 ($42k) Expenses 117 ($60k) Net assets 77 ($61k)2019 Revenue 222 ($49k) Expenses 125 ($64k) Net assets 59 ($47k)2020 Revenue 260 ($57k) Expenses 117 ($60k) Net assets 56 ($44k)2021 Revenue 290 ($64k) Expenses 129 ($66k) Net assets 53 ($42k)2022 Revenue 187 ($41k) Expenses 89 ($45k) Net assets 48 ($38k)2023 Revenue 223 ($49k) Expenses 84 ($43k) Net assets 56 ($45k)2024 Revenue 291 ($64k) Expenses 70 ($36k) Net assets 93 ($74k)2025 Revenue 266 ($59k) Expenses 138 ($70k) Net assets 78 ($62k)
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Revenue (266)Expenses (138)Net assets (78)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 $45k to $74k (+64%).

$80k
$62k
$47k
$44k
$42k
$38k
$45k
$74k
$62k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

87% of ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$29k
’17
−$18k
’18
−$15k
’19
−$3k
’20
−$2k
’21
−$4k
’22
$7k
’23
$29k
’24
−$12k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $15k.

From the IRS filings of ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA 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

ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

34% 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 ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION.

55%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

66% of ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
MD

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

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’19
’21
’23
New York out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−20% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

97%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA 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 ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION?
ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,890 to it, the largest being TRUST FOR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $54,890 in grants to ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION?
TRUST FOR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ES EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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