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FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC

FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC (New York) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,048,594 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,910,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.6M
Revenue FY2025
64
Funders on record
$6.0M
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
31/64 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 65%

Against its field

FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−48% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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

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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($361k)2018 Revenue 123 ($1.5M) Expenses 94 ($1.2M) Net assets 204 ($734k)2019 Revenue 182 ($2.3M) Expenses 174 ($2.2M) Net assets 231 ($834k)2020 Revenue 150 ($1.9M) Expenses 131 ($1.6M) Net assets 296 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 208 ($2.6M) Expenses 136 ($1.7M) Net assets 546 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 368 ($4.6M) Expenses 244 ($3.0M) Net assets 979 ($3.5M)2023 Revenue 225 ($2.8M) Expenses 290 ($3.6M) Net assets 757 ($2.7M)2024 Revenue 255 ($3.2M) Expenses 321 ($4.0M) Net assets 530 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 129 ($1.6M) Expenses 191 ($2.4M) Net assets 316 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (191)Net assets (316)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 5% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

48% of FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
17
$374k
18
$100k
19
$233k
20
$904k
21
$1.6M
22
$799k
23
$819k
24
$775k
25
4.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $61k → $656k.

12 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)10% 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 FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 funders by total. 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

FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

28% 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 FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC.

48%
largest funder
65%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 37% · 2019 41% · 2020 33% · 2021 65% · 2022 53% · 2023 23%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.

How long its funders stay

33% of FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

82% of FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

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IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
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CA
MD
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LA
TX
FL

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $606k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

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 64 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.

Government funding FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $178k on record — $176k federal, $3k state.

Federal$176k
grants $176kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$150k
  • Department of State$26k
State$3k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3k

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 FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC

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

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Dance Works Inc · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS 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 FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC?
FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC (New York) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,048,594 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,910,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC have?
IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $6,048,594 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,910,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS 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.

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 64funders 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