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ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,469,197 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($540,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$4.8M
22/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Issue Project Room Inc does

Program

  1. Issue project room presents projects by interdisciplinary artists that expand the boundaries of artistic practice and stimulate critical dialogue in the broader community. Issue serves as a leading cultural incubator, facilitating the commission and premiere of innovative new works spanning genres of music, dance, literature and film. During 2025, issue commissioned multiple works and presented numerous events bringing recognition to creative practitioners whose important contributions to the artistic field are underrepresented.

    $335,432 spent$58,253 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $335,432.

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 ($657k) Expenses 100 ($615k) Net assets 100 ($885k)2019 Revenue 129 ($848k) Expenses 118 ($723k) Net assets 129 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 144 ($948k) Expenses 100 ($616k) Net assets 167 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 409 ($2.7M) Expenses 118 ($728k) Net assets 387 ($3.4M)2022 Revenue 154 ($1.0M) Expenses 112 ($689k) Net assets 423 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 100 ($659k) Expenses 109 ($669k) Net assets 422 ($3.7M)2024 Revenue 200 ($1.3M) Expenses 107 ($661k) Net assets 496 ($4.4M)2025 Revenue 172 ($1.1M) Expenses 112 ($687k) Net assets 546 ($4.8M)
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Revenue (172)Expenses (112)Net assets (546)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $3.6M (+125%).

$934k
$1.2M
$1.6M
$3.6M
$3.8M
$3.8M
$4.5M
$4.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 27% · 2019 39% · 2020 39% · 2021 38% · 2022 50% · 2023 25% · 2024 67% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$42k
’17
$124k
’19
$332k
’20
$2.0M
’21
$319k
’22
−$11k
’23
$652k
’24
$444k
’25
1.0
months of
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

Zev Greenfield

Executive director & chief curator

Board chair

Roger Luke Dubois

President, board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121011101212109
Joined··+1+0+2+2+2+1
No longer listed··010242
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $37k → $226k.

4 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 ISSUE PROJECT ROOM 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.

How concentrated its funding is

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

37%
largest funder
56%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 55% · 2019 49% · 2020 69% · 2021 38% · 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

63% of ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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

64% of ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

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NY
PA
NJ
RI
CA

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. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.

Federal$100k
grants $100kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$100k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

49% of spending goes to programs.

Program 49%Management 33%Fundraising 18%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC?
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,469,197 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($540,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,469,197 in grants to ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC?
THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ISSUE PROJECT ROOM 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.

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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 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing