New York · Nonprofit
FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP
FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,395 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($67,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $160k
- Net assets
- $97k
What Fist & Heel Performance Group does
Mission
Fostering growth of the dance and performance art traditions of africa and the african diaspora, and of contemporary art forms drawing on these traditions;and encouraging public interest in these dance and performance art forms.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To manifest the intersections of cultural anthropology and movement practices of reggie wilsons performance.
$113,493 spent$115,470 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $113,493.
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. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $62k to $132k (+112%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2022 19% · 2023 32% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Reginald Wilson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $26k → $10k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP’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
FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2019 99% · 2020 73% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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
FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $160k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP: 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 FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP?
- FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,395 to it, the largest being NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ($67,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $160,395 in grants to FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP?
- NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $67,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIST & HEEL PERFORMANCE GROUP 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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