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Pick Up Performance Co Inc

Pick Up Performance Co Inc (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $495,620 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($160,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$268k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$496k
Net assets
$16k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%
01What it does

What Pick Up Performance Co Inc does

Mission

To provide students and audiences with the opportunity to observe and appreciate artistic performances.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During the 2024 2025 programming, the Pick Up Performance Co. Inc. had 1 production in performance, 2 new works in development, and continued work facilitating a multi-year artists archive initiative.In development, PUPC is producing Wally Cardonas new work based on material from David Gordons Time Four (1975). There were 10 weeks of rehearsal and a studio showing on March 6 8, 2025.In development, PUPC is producing Ain Gordons new work Condolences, which received 3 years of development funding from Creative Capital, a commission from New York Live Arts, and support from a national foundation.The PUPC production of Ain Gordon's work Relics and Their Humans was presented at Arizona Arts Live, Tucson, AZ, September 2024, and self-presented performances in NYC, January 2025,PUPC continues work on a multi-year initiative, an archive leadership project for 11 artists that will generate 7 permanent archives destined for institutional homes like the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the Beinecke Library. PUPC hosted and co-hosted 5 public events to facilitate a community conversation about creating individual artists archives.

    $229,846 spent$65,417 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $229,846.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($191k) Expenses 100 ($384k) Net assets 100 ($115k)2018 Revenue 114 ($218k) Expenses 85 ($325k) Net assets 7 ($8k)2019 Revenue 184 ($352k) Expenses 91 ($350k) Net assets 8 ($9k)2020 Revenue 93 ($178k) Expenses 48 ($184k) Net assets 3 ($4k)2021 Revenue 113 ($216k) Expenses 56 ($216k) Net assets 4 ($4k)2022 Revenue 130 ($249k) Expenses 61 ($234k) Net assets 16 ($19k)2023 Revenue 100 ($192k) Expenses 53 ($202k) Net assets 7 ($8k)2024 Revenue 135 ($258k) Expenses 68 ($261k) Net assets 4 ($4k)2025 Revenue 140 ($268k) Expenses 67 ($257k) Net assets 14 ($16k)
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Revenue (140)Expenses (67)Net assets (14)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $136k to $36k (−74%).

$136k
$36k
$53k
$45k
$34k
$56k
$34k
$34k
$26k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 22% · 2019 14% · 2021 22% · 2022 30% · 2024 29% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$193k
’17
−$107k
’18
$1k
’19
−$6k
’20
$587
’21
$14k
’22
−$11k
’23
−$4k
’24
$12k
’25
0.6
months of
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.

201820192021202220242025
Listed89891010
Joined·+1·+1·+1
No longer listed·0·0·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $162k → $66k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Pick Up Performance Co 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

Pick Up Performance Co Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

32% 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 Pick Up Performance Co Inc.

32%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 91% · 2019 91% · 2020 95% · 2021 50% · 2022 38% · 2023 55% — 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

50% of Pick Up Performance Co Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

96% of Pick Up Performance Co Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

VT
NY
MA

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k 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

Organizations like Pick Up Performance Co 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 7%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

67%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds Pick Up Performance Co Inc?
Pick Up Performance Co Inc (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $495,620 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($160,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Pick Up Performance Co Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $495,620 in grants to Pick Up Performance Co Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Pick Up Performance Co Inc?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Pick Up Performance Co 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.

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 10 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