New York · Nonprofit
ILLUMINATION EVENTS INC
ILLUMINATION EVENTS INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,487 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($8,487). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $93k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $465
What Illumination Events Inc does
Mission
Illumination light art festival produces large scale public art festivals in new york city that hand out free tickets to the community. Our first art festival was in 2021 in brooklyn and we handed out 15,000 free tickets to the general public. We are now set to produce a public no ticket art festival in battery park in new york in 2023. Covid has delayed a lot.the events are conducted by the illumination nyc team which consists currently of ron fisher, flo tong, ethan pope, robert montenegro, and sam skalbeck who co-produce the events. Each of us dedicates 20% of our time and we do not take a salary for our efforts. Activities are funded through grants, vip tickets, and merchandise & concession sales. Our activities further our purpose by providing new york families a chance to experience light-based art in an outdoor setting. Our mission is to empower local artists to build these works and give families an opportunity to enjoy them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Only one activity in 2024
$91,923 spent$12,981 earned by the program100% of program spendingNone
None
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $91,923.
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 $7k to $3k (−57%).
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: 2023 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of ILLUMINATION EVENTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ILLUMINATION EVENTS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ILLUMINATION EVENTS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
ILLUMINATION EVENTS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ILLUMINATION EVENTS 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ILLUMINATION EVENTS 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 ILLUMINATION EVENTS INC?
- ILLUMINATION EVENTS INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,487 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($8,487). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ILLUMINATION EVENTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,487 in grants to ILLUMINATION EVENTS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLUMINATION EVENTS INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,487 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLUMINATION EVENTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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