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ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION

ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $485,500 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($450,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$56k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$486k
Net assets
$2.1M
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Foundation does

Program

  1. The ship of tolerance - the mission of the ship of tolerance is to educate and connect youth of different continents, cultures, and identities through the language of art. It is a conceptual piece that is meant to reflect how divergent cultures interpret tolerance and how these interpretations overlap. The ship's sails are stitched together from paintings by hundreds of local schoolchildren from different ethnic and social backgrounds, and will convey a message of tolerance and hope. By participating in the creation of this ship children will learn about respecting different cultures and ideas while appreciating how they differ from their own. In short, through this creative process they will both demonstrate and gain a vibrant lesson in tolerance.

    $69,072 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The 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 ($189k) Expenses 100 ($391k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 423 ($801k) Expenses 19 ($76k) Net assets 144 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 124 ($235k) Expenses 128 ($500k) Net assets 128 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 19 ($36k) Expenses 8 ($32k) Net assets 128 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 8 ($15k) Expenses 3 ($11k) Net assets 128 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 47 ($89k) Expenses 13 ($50k) Net assets 131 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 72 ($136k) Expenses 46 ($178k) Net assets 128 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 22 ($42k) Expenses 4 ($17k) Net assets 129 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 30 ($56k) Expenses 22 ($88k) Net assets 128 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (30)Expenses (22)Net assets (128)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.7M to $2.4M (+44%).

$1.7M
$2.4M
$2.2M
$2.1M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $33k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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

ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION.

93%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

99% of ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION'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. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $483k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve207.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION?
ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $485,500 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($450,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $485,500 in grants to ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION?
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV FOUNDATION 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 4 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