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PHOSCOPE CORP

PHOSCOPE CORP (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,063 to it, the largest being DESIGNERS LIGHTING FORUM OF NEW YORK INCORPORATED ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$53k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$65k
Net assets
$0
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Phoscope Corp does

Mission

Ecological lighting

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

N/a

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($66k) Expenses 100 ($23k) Net assets 100 ($43k)2021 Revenue 80 ($53k) Expenses 183 ($42k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20202021
Revenue (80)Expenses (183)Net assets (0)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $43k to $0 (−100%).

$43k
$0
20202021
Total assets

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.

2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PHOSCOPE CORP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (89% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 835 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’20
$10k
’21
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $18.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 PHOSCOPE CORP’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

PHOSCOPE CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 PHOSCOPE CORP.

61%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of PHOSCOPE CORP's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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

’19
’21
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PHOSCOPE CORP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 612 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−20% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 612 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2021

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In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHOSCOPE CORP: 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 PHOSCOPE CORP?
PHOSCOPE CORP (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,063 to it, the largest being DESIGNERS LIGHTING FORUM OF NEW YORK INCORPORATED ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PHOSCOPE CORP have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $65,063 in grants to PHOSCOPE CORP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHOSCOPE CORP?
DESIGNERS LIGHTING FORUM OF NEW YORK INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHOSCOPE CORP 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 FY2021 (financials across 2020–2021), and the filings of 3 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