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FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION

FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,390,875 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$13M
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
$2.4M
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
0/11 repeat funders

Against its field

FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin87% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.3mo · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
7
4

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION’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

FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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

63%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

72% of FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from New York funders.

WA
IL
NY
DE
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Inc76%Mianus River Gorge Inc74%Mohonk Preserve Inc74%Art Start Inc74%Hull House Foundation74%Creative Time Inc74%Great Deep Inc74%The Hudson Valley Trust Inc74%

Nationally

Maps Media Institute Inc78%Sealaska Heritage Institute77%The Tiwahe Foundation77%Indian Land Tenure Foundation76%The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Inc76%Zygote Press Inc76%Forecast Public Artworks76%Indigenous Roots & Reparation Fnd76%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 31%Fundraising 14%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION?
FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,390,875 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,390,875 in grants to FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing