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ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC

ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,700 to it, the largest being DEBORAH BUCK FOUNDATION ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$189k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$175k
Net assets
$29k
4/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What On This Spot NYC Stories of Pioneering Women Artists Inc does

Mission

On this spot nyc: stories of pioneering women arists is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. It focuses on women artists, a group that continues to be marginalized. On this spot is conceived as a resource free to all users.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Discovery: stories of pioneering women artists corrects gender imbalances in art and cultural history through a dual focus on mapping the sites where female artists worked and lived and what additional challenges women had and currently have to overcome to achieve success.

    $1,137 spent
    1% of program spending
  2. Production of various exhibits and events as well as small contributions to various organizations

    $134,281 spentof which $1,137 as grants
    99% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $135,418.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($1) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets -43 ($-4078)2022 Revenue 12000300 ($120k) Expenses 2609 ($106k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2023 Revenue 15108300 ($151k) Expenses 3768 ($154k) Net assets 73 ($7k)2024 Revenue 18890000 ($189k) Expenses 4080 ($166k) Net assets 309 ($29k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (18890000)Expenses (4080)Net assets (309)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 2022 to 2023, from $35k to $7k (−80%).

$21k
$35k
$7k
$30k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’21
$14k
’22
−$3k
’23
$22k
’24

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Tony Ganz

Co-founder/board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $53k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS 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

ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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

35% 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 ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC.

26%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 67% · 2023 38% — 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.

Where its funders are

73% of ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

VT
NY
NJ
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k 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

ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5638% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC?
ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,700 to it, the largest being DEBORAH BUCK FOUNDATION ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $174,700 in grants to ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC?
DEBORAH BUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ON THIS SPOT NYC STORIES OF PIONEERING WOMEN ARTISTS INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 12 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