New York · Nonprofit
Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory
Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $776,606 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $777k
- Net assets
- $261k
What Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory does
Mission
City as Living Laboratory CaLL conceives of the city as a living laboratory where artists and designers collaborate with scientists, other experts and policy makers to create immediate experimental impact from research and planning initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
WaterMarks - CALL continued work on its major, decade-long effort to advance water stewardship in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. CALL continued building partnerships with key neighborhoods in Milwahkee, supporting residents in fourteen diverse communities to take on leadership roles.
$522,073 spent71% of program spendingRescuing Tibbetts Brook - The Redmoon project was conceived to increase public engagement with landmark daylighting of Tibbetts Brook in the NW Bronx. Redmoons workshops and research is leading up to installations on bridges crossing the planned location for daylighting Tibbetts Brook.
$43,115 spent6% of program spendingWaterways // Cloudbursts - Project is dedicated to coalesce a city-wide network of sites and people dedicated to public engagement around flooding and water related issues - physical, ecological, social and economic. In 2024 began a collaboration with the NYC Department of Environmental Protection to engage vulnerable communities to build awareness of dangerous Cloudburst sites. Also began a series of Walks, Workshop and other Projects.
$104,293 spent14% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 67,052, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 40,417 Other Projects - FRAMEWORK follows an iterative and responsive process frequently initiated with investigative WALKS. Archiving materials. Artist management services.
$67,052 spent$40,417 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $736,533.
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.
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 $114k to $391k (+242%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 22% · 2019 19% · 2020 9% · 2021 26% · 2022 75% · 2023 50% · 2024 80% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Olivia Georgia
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $30k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory’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
Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 39% · 2020 54% · 2021 89% · 2022 81% · 2023 83% — 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
20% of Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
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
57% of Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $255k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$255k
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 Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory: 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 Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory?
- Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $776,606 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $776,606 in grants to Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory 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 13 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