New York · Nonprofit
PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC
PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,606 to it, the largest being HEARTFELT WINGS FOUNDATION INC ($142,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC has grown faster than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Vermont Childrens Trust Foundationshared funders
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio match
- Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Incportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $48k → $40k.
From the IRS filings of PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS 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
PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
46% 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 PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2021 95% · 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
53% of PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS 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. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Vermont Childrens Trust Foundationshared fundersVT · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jim Henson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Participant Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catapult Film Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Creative Capital Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Poss Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlotte Cushman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sundance Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS 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 PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC?
- PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,606 to it, the largest being HEARTFELT WINGS FOUNDATION INC ($142,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $266,606 in grants to PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC?
- HEARTFELT WINGS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $142,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing