New York · Nonprofit
MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC
MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,354,831 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($890,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Movement Research Inc does
Mission
The organization is dedicated to the creation and implementation of free and low-cost programs that nurture and instigate discourse and experimentation. Through its programs, the organization strives to reflect the cultural, political and economic diversity of its moving community, including artists and audiences alike.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Presentation of both curated and non-curated works at two separate free weekly public performances; two annual festivals including performances, workshops and discussions; a monthly free performance discussion series; creative opportunities for artists including an artist-in-residence program and mrx exchanges between nyc choreographers and national international peers; subsidized rehearsal space; low-cost, ongoing, drop-in classes; in-school dance activities for k-12; the performance journal, a free printed format published twice a year; and critical correspondence, an online forum for critical discourse in dance.
$1,694,500 spent$295,027 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,694,500.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $3.0M (+83%).
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 16% · 2018 19% · 2019 11% · 2020 29% · 2021 28% · 2022 26% · 2023 21% · 2024 21% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Barbara Bryan
Executive director
Board chair
Kay Takeda
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $103k → $606k.
3 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 57% · 2019 41% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 55% · 2023 36% — growing more concentrated.
“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
47% of MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
79% of MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC'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. $161k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $305k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$305k
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 MOVEMENT RESEARCH 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 MOVEMENT RESEARCH 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 MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC?
- MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,354,831 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($890,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $4,354,831 in grants to MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $890,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOVEMENT RESEARCH 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 33 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