New York · Nonprofit
PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC
PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,718 to it, the largest being IRVIN STERN FOUNDATION ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Paper Fig Foundation Inc does
Mission
The paper fig foundation is the charitable initiative of new york city based event management and production firm ldj productions. Its mission is to empower women and support sustainable community development in africa. Pff provides communities in need with practical, hands-on education and support from a growing group of professionals within the ldj network. Through this process, pff and its partners are working to create sustainable benefits that the injection of financial resources alone cannot produce. Pff's partnership with selected communities and local leadership on the ground is central to its mission and funding. Pff supports a healthcare initiative through it's building and continued funding of the marietta steinberg health center, and women's empowerment and education through a sewing school that teaches women in rural communities the skills necessary to design and fabricate their own garments, or find employment in nearby cities in the textile manufacturing industry. While helping to fulfill its mission, partners and friends of pff are not only transforming the communities they touch, but also shaping their own lives through this shared vision.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Opening in november 2015, the marietta steinberg health care center has a staff of 4 employees and treats an estimated 1,000 patients per year, suffering from malaria, dysentery, tuberculosis, and other treatable illnesses when immediate care is available. The marietta steinberg health care center is located in kihara, which is situated in the rwenzori mountains in uganda.
$67,358 spent84% of program spendingIn november 2015 pff launched a women and girls empowerment program. We believe that the best thing we can do to affect sustainable economic growth is to support educational ventures with special attention paid to encouraging and empowering women. Pff has created a sewing school that teaches women the skills necessary to design and produce their own garments and textiles, which can be sold in the community. Additionally, these skills can be used to find employment in the fashion and textile manufacturing industry in nearby cities, where these skills are valued. The sewing school has a staff of 3 employees and an estimated 100-150 students attend and graduate from the program each year. Additionally, there is a local area supervisor that oversees both programs in uganda.
$13,264 spent16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,622.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $3k to $48k (+1554%).
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.
100% of PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $12k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 PAPER FIG FOUNDATION 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
PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 60% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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.
Against its field
PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Department of State$25k
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 PAPER FIG FOUNDATION 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.
Public support
96%
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 PAPER FIG FOUNDATION 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 PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC?
- PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,718 to it, the largest being IRVIN STERN FOUNDATION ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $64,718 in grants to PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAPER FIG FOUNDATION INC?
- IRVIN STERN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAPER FIG FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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