New York · Nonprofit
PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC
PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,627 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC ($86,627). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $263k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Public Assistants Inc does
Mission
Public Assistants (PA) is a community design lab, and media production studio working to counter systemic inequity and neglect with solutions guided by creativity and collaborative, community based artmaking. PA works to create and support an ecosystem of Black and POC LGBTQi+ artists from New York City and social practice art forms that strengthen disenfranchised communities and reconsider traditional systems and practices of art and art making
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mural Program- Each year, PA takes on a selected number of community-based mural projects. This past year PA achieved 2 murals, one for a collaboration project with MOMA via artist DonChristian Jones assisted by artist Victor Saint Hilaire and 50 students. and another in Queensbridge Park, Bronx with the artist Victor Saint-Hilaire supervising 16 student participants. This project is earned income and planning and partial funding began in the later part of the last fiscal year
$15,100 spentof which $10,000 as grants$-5,100 earned by the program21% of program spendingArtist Support - The Divine Fellowship, made possible with the support of Ford Foundation supports eight selected QTBIPOC artists working through social impact projects each year, through stipends, a residency program upstate, retreats, and access to the tools and resources of our shop. Beyond this fellowship, PA supported over ten other artists across their respective creative and community based projects. This funding is spread over two fiscal years. funding was received in the prior year and posted as receivables for this fiscal year.
$40,899 spentof which $40,899 as grants58% of program spendingCollaborative community based art installation with MOMA,
$14,722 spent$35,800 earned by the program21% of program spendingPublic Assistants provided printing, publishing, and production services for QTBIPOC artists working at the intersections of community storytelling, cultural memory, and social imagination. The program offered access to fabrication tools, mentorship, and collaborative studio space to support the creation and distribution of new artistic works. These services expanded equitable access to cultural production and advanced the organization's mission to serve as a hub for community-rooted artistic practice. These services were provided with volunteer assistance.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $70,721.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $47k to $138k (+191%).
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.
26% of PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
India Karavackis
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $48k → $109k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 PUBLIC ASSISTANTS 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
PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 48% · 2022 51% · 2023 52% — 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
88% of PUBLIC ASSISTANTS 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. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PUBLIC ASSISTANTS 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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC ASSISTANTS 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 PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC?
- PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,627 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC ($86,627). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $262,627 in grants to PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC?
- CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC is the largest funder on record, with $86,627 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC ASSISTANTS 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 8 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