New York · Nonprofit
FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC
FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,886,612 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($550,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $644k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $259k
What Family Pictures Institute for Inclusive Storytelling Inc does
Mission
To revalue and promulgate the use of the family album to build the community by illuminating shared values and experiences as human beings and transform strangers into family in order to create a more inclusive and empathetic society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Organized and produced a major symposium on Storytelling and community Well-Being, in concert with the Whitney Humanities Center of Yale University, in New Haven CT which involved members of the community, artists, scholars, students in guided dialogues, conversations and sharing around urgent questions regarding youth mental health, civic engagment and the role of family narratives in co-creatng narrative change as a way to heal communities. We also gave workshops on family narratives and cultural impacts at Yale University's :For Humanity Illuminated and in Baltimore, MD in concert with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation;s Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions conference. We presented workshops in Provincetown, MA in concert with Tewnty Summers Residency focused on gathering vulnerable stories from communities on the margins.
$629,340 spentof which $624,575 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $629,340.
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 $21k to $344k (+1502%).
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 FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $175k → $689k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING 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
FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 77%; 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 FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 86% · 2023 44% — 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
67% of FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING 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. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING 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 FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC?
- FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,886,612 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($550,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,886,612 in grants to FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING INC?
- THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY PICTURES INSTITUTE FOR INCLUSIVE STORYTELLING 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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